In Wichita, Kansas news about McCarthy was ummm... 'muted' a bit, as we had 3 members of the board of the John Birch Society in town. We couldn't help seeing some of it on national TV news, but TV was pretty new in town, and we only had a couple of stations..... and local newspapers were very careful what their editorials said. I barely knew about the details till I started college in 1957.