From the Archives: Season Two, Episode Six

Photo of Buddy Hunt (center) with his father Lester Hunt (right) in the governor's mansion in Wyoming.

Buddy Hunt, son of Senator Lester Hunt, pictured as a young man.

Photo of Lester C. "Buddy" Hunt, son of Sen. Lester Hunt

Press coverage about Joseph McCarthy beating Sen. Bob La Follette, Jr. in the Wisconsin Senate Republican primary, August 15, 1946.

Former Sen. Bob La Follette Jr.'s obituary in the Washington Post after his suicide, February 25, 1953

Invitation for Sen. Lester Hunt to appear on NBC radio to debate fellow Sen. John Stennis about Hunt's Congressional immunity proposal, September 1950

Sen. Lester Hunt's handwritten notes in preparation for his radio debate with Sen. Stennis about Congressional immunity, 1950

Letter to Sen. Lester Hunt, held in his personal files, from a voter supporting his efforts to limit the Congressional immunity being abused by "certain Senators", September 1950

Letter from Sen. Lester Hunt to reporter Drew Pearson detailing Hunt's efforts to limit Congressional immunity, September 1950

Article in “The Progressive Magazine” about Sen. Joe McCarthy's “motives and methods,” found in Sen. Hunt's personal files related to his push to limit Congressional immunity

Newspaper clippings in Sen. Lester Hunt's personal files related to his legislation to limit Congressional immunity

Drew Pearson reports on several Nazi agents being run in America by Nazi lawyer Rudolf Aschenauer who have gotten close to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, including American fascist Francis Yockey, March 31, 1954

A page from The Tennessean newspaper from June 23, 1954. Side-by-side are articles by Drew Pearson about how Sen. Lester Hunt was blackmailed by his fellow senators, and by Marquis Childs noting the similarities between Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Adolf Hitler's rise to power

Columnists Joseph and Steward Alsop detail Sen. Joseph McCarthy's ties to pro-fascist groups, and his willingness to fracture the Republican party to facilitate his rise to power

A rebuttal of the Senate investigation into the Malmedy Massacre written by Rudolf Aschenauer, a Nazi lawyer who helped spread the torture hoax about German soldiers being mistreated by American investigators

Newspaper report from the McCormick family newspaper chain detailing the arrest and charges against Buddy Hunt, son of Sen. Lester Hunt, July 1953

Photo of McCarthy Senate ally Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH)

Photo of McCarthy Senate ally Sen. Herman Welker (R-ID), nicknamed "Little Joe from Idaho"

Sen. Joseph McCarthy publicly announces a probe against a Democratic Senator on June 18, 1954. The following day, Sen. Lester Hunt commits suicide inside his Senate office.

A letter from Sen. Lester Hunt to a constituent, hand-signed by the Senator the day before he took his own life, June 1954

The front page of The Casper Tribune-Herald on June 20, 1954, reporting on Sen. Lester Hunt's suicide