This Week in 1954, One Man Changed the Country

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3. And five years later, Welch played to role of a judge...

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... in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder. That voice was unmistakable.

The late Bob Elliott of Bob and Ray did a great Welch imitation in a courageous, but hilarious sendup of the McCarthy Hearings that they broadcast in 1954. Both men played multiple roles. Bob also played mediocre actor Harry Backstayge, who was in hot water with the zoning commission of Skunkhaven, New York, for attempting to build a skyscraper on his residential property. Ray Goulding's Commissioner Carstairs was an uncanny imitation of McCarthy.