interestingly enough hollywood hired robert welch and if you see him he's a very cagey judge. he had a certain theatrical side along the way. but he really did show maccarthy what he was and that undermines mccarthy standing among the other senators may begin investigation and in december of 1954 two months after the hearings the conduct unbecoming of a senator. all of the democrats except for john kennedy and about half of the republicans including prescott bush who was father and grandfather to president wound up voting to venture senator mccarthy. senator mccarthy was never able to regain his national standing after that. he went into a tailspin and died at the age of 48 a few years later. when way cohen stepped down as chancellor of the committee the committee hired robert kennedy to replace him. if you go through the records of the national archive, you can see the moment kennedy leaves and cohen takes over. it's a nice tight deposition and it looks like a serious attorney is in charge. kennedy brought together a very talented staff and they began investigating and contin

american businessman who are summoned to indianapolis by a former candidate executive by the name of robert welch also is known as the anti-communist views at that point. they were brought there under the strictest secrecy. they didn't even know why they're going to indianapolis. they were told not to even stay at the same hotel, less attract suspicion about why all these prominent businessmen are in one place. this ends up being the founding beanie of the john birch society and fred koch is literate in the room at the birth of this organization and goes on to play for palmer rolled with it. he becomes a national council member and wichita, kansas becomes a real hotbed, wichita kansas which is where the koch feminist becomes a real hotbed of birch society organizing. i was speaking with eugene earlier who mentioned as a school teacher in texas, the birch society really targeted her for some the things that were said in her classroom at that time and it really brought back a lot of memories for me about researching this book especially what was taking place in wichita at this time. there were many