townsend joseph welch became quite well known. who was he? he was an attorney who was serving as counsel to the u.s. army during this investigation. and he became very well known because of his really steadfast resistance to the bullying and to the maneuvers that senator mccarthy was trying to engage in during during the investigation and particularly during those hearings, what became of senator mccarthy after he was first elected in 46, probably reelected in 52, did he get reelect? did in 58? no. he did not. but let me back up and say one thing about about welch, because it does bear on sort of what ultimately happened to senator mccarthy joseph welch. you know, in a hearing in 1954, kind of in the middle of these and was in june of 54, was engaging in a in a in a colloquy basically with senator mccarthy, who was trying to again, so doubt about the people in the u.s. army and about the position the army was taking by by suggesting that one of the attorneys, a young attorney, had had associations with communism. that attorney was taken off t

townsend joseph welch became quite well known. who was he? he was an attorney who was serving as counsel to the u.s. army during this investigation. and he became very well known because of his really steadfast resistance to the bullying and to the maneuvers that senator mccarthy was trying to engage in during during the investigation and particularly during those hearings, what became of senator mccarthy after he was first elected in 46, probably reelected in 52, did he get reelect? did in 58? no. he did not. but let me back up and say one thing about about welch, because it does bear on sort of what ultimately happened to senator mccarthy joseph welch. you know, in a hearing in 1954, kind of in the middle of these and was in june of 54, was engaging in a in a in a colloquy basically with senator mccarthy, who was trying to again, so doubt about the people in the u.s. army and about the position the army was taking by by suggesting that one of the attorneys, a young attorney, had had assoations with communism. that attorney was taken off the