Controversy surrounds the ACLU's efforts to establish a local chapter in Indiana. It revolves around resistance of the local American Legion and others to rent an auditorium for a meeting of the ACLU at a war memorial complex.
A famous investigative reporter exposes a demagogue, on the eve of the Army-McCarthy hearings which many in America were gathering around Tv sets to watch.
Details Republican primaries for the US Senate race in Maine and the California State Senate race in Los Angeles county. Division within the party over McCarthyism features prominently in both.