ethyl birch gave welch material that she had been collecting for her home biography of her son. welch wrote a sort of a yahoo which was as much a political platform as it was a biography. it is a frustrating book. welch calls him a heroic young patriot who recognize the dangers of communism on before others. just echoing what no one had already said, the death was deliberate and unjustified killing and claimed that birch at sacrifice his life as a warning to others about the true intentions of the communists. so with the enthusiastic permission of parents who hasmust establish the john birch society in 1958. as i mentioned, it became one of the most influential and controversial organizations of its time periods platform was the anti- communism and anti- big government. welch have decided that john birch was the ideal symbol for his new movement founded in late 1958. he did so for three reasons. birch represented the mind, the epitome of values, missionary, military officer , helps to rescue jimmy doolittle, he was described by noland and then welch as the 1st casualty of world