senator, was very much based in reality. in the decade before the manchurian candidate came out, it was real life senator jon mccarthy of wisconsin, who really did stuff like that. that's joe mccarthy at the microphone. we next to him in the previous still was roy cohen. on february 9th, john mccarthy at the microphone -- in february night 1950, mccarthy gave a speech to a republican woman's club in west virginia. in which he really did wave around a piece of paper and say he had a list of communists on it. newspapers quoted him saying, that west virginia meeting in 1950, i have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the secretary of state as being members of the communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the states a department.