Walter Bernstein on screenwriter Ben Maddow testifying (and naming names) before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
02:04
Walter Bernstein on being listed in Red Channels, his subsequent blacklisting, and how it affected his career
10:42
Walter Bernstein on "The Hollywood Ten"
01:12
Walter Bernstein on using a pseudonym and "fronts" to write for Danger and You Are There during the Blacklist
28:30
Walter Bernstein on the subversive subtext of You Are There; on Edward R. Murrow's See It Now denouncing Senator McCarthy; on the use of "fronts" during the Blacklist and how he was cleared to work on movies, but not television
25:32
Walter Bernstein on the end of his blacklisting in the film industry -- and on being one of the first people cleared; on how Europeans felt about the Blacklist; on what he would have sad had he been subpoenaed
05:53
Walter Bernstein on why he thinks the Blacklist happened and how it affected the television industry; on whether something similar could happen again
05:02
Walter Bernstein on why he thinks the Blacklist happened and how it affected the television industry; on whether something similar could happen again
05:02
Walter Bernstein on what the industry should/could learn from the Blacklist and advice to others who might find themselves in a similar situation to what he went through
01:46
Albert Freedman on Charles Van Doren contacting him when the D.A.'s office announced an investigation into the quiz shows (including Twenty One)
01:22
Albert Freedman on raising money for the defense fees for those on trial during the Hollywood Blacklist
01:58
Albert Freedman on his dealings with Twenty One contestant James Snodgrass during the Quiz Show Scandals>
03:02
Albert Freedman on the most difficult pre-test of all the quiz shows - on Twenty One - and how producers selected which answers to give contestants
00:51
Albert Freedman on becoming a producer on Twenty One, coaching contestants, and casting Charles Van Doren on the program
29:12
Albert Freedman on the head of Geritol (Twenty One's sponsor) wanting Herbert Stempel off the program and how Freedman convinced Charles Van Doren to become a contestant
07:40
Albert Freedman on Charles Van Doren becoming a celebrity because of his appearances of Twenty One; on the beginning of the Quiz Show Scandals; on not wanting to implicate Charles Van Doren
28:55
Albert Freedman on the beginning of the Quiz Show scandals in 1958 - Ed Hilgemeier going to the press about the fixing of Dotto
07:26
Albert Freedman on the sequence of events that led to the press scrutinization of TV and the explosion of the Quiz Show Scandals
01:43
Albert Freedman on how he got embroiled in the investigations surrounding the Quiz Show Scandals; on how he was counseled by lawyers
02:57
Albert Freedman on being poorly coached by lawyers for the Grand Jury testimony for the Quiz Show Scandals; on realizing he was being set up for an indictment
04:00
Albert Freedman on not giving names to prosecutor Joseph Stone when he was questioned during the Quiz Show Scandals
02:28
Albert Freedman on being indicted for perjury after his testimony during the Quiz Show Scandals; on recanting his testimony and perjuring himself again
11:23
Albert Freedman on being blacklisted because of the Quiz Show Scandals
05:30
Albert Freedman on Charles Van Doren being persuaded to testify before the House Committee after Van Doren had seen the notes from the original Grand Jury testimony; on returning from Mexico to testify
02:57
Albert Freedman on reaching out to Charles Van Doren's lawyer to explain the circumstances under which Freedman would be testifying before the House Committee (to explain that Freedman would not be speaking about Van Doren)
03:55
Albert Freedman on reaching out to Charles Van Doren's lawyer to explain the circumstances under which Freedman would be testifying before the House Committee (to explain that Freedman would not be speaking about Van Doren)
03:55
Albert Freedman on CBS allegedly paying off the Harris Commission, Charles Revson perjuring himself, and other testimony at the Congressional hearings
02:26
Albert Freedman on testifying before the Grand Jury for a third time during the Quiz Show Scandals and his indictment finally being dropped after four years
02:49
Albert Freedman on Robert Redford's movie "Quiz Show" and whether or not the film was accurate
06:21
Albert Freedman on who the "bad guys" were in the Quiz Show Scandals
03:01
Albert Freedman on the impact of the Quiz Show Scandals on the medium of television - the end of the intelligent era of live TV
03:00
Albert Freedman on what the quiz shows were really about - making education respectable via entertainment
01:01
Albert Freedman on whether today's quiz shows are affected by the Quiz Show Scandals
01:46
Larry Gelbart on the effect the Writer's Guild Strike in 1973 had on the production of M*A*S*H
00:33
Larry Gelbart on the 1985 Academy Awards show, which he was asked to write, but during which there was a Writers Guild strike; on his commitment to the WGA during this time
03:14
Larry Gelbart on the 1985 Academy Awards show, which he was asked to write, but during which there was a Writers Guild strike; on his commitment to the WGA during this time
03:14
Leonard H. Goldenson on changing the sponsorship model for television
02:09
Leonard H. Goldenson on airing the McCarthy Hearings in their entirety on ABC
01:16
Leonard H. Goldenson on airing the McCarthy Hearings in their entirety on ABC
01:16
Leonard H. Goldenson on his most important decisions at ABC
03:26
Julian Goodman on Charles Van Doren's appearance on the public affairs show Comment
01:21
Julian Goodman on the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism and J. Edgar Hoover telling him a Communist was working on one of his shows, and on HUAC
03:21
Julian Goodman on Edward R. Murrow's See it Now episode, "Senator McCarthy"
00:57
Lee Grant on her relationship with Arnold Manoff and their experiences with the Hollywood Blacklist
15:07
Lee Grant on testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
09:08
Lee Grant on her friends and co-workers reaction to having been blacklisted, and on what her life was like when she was on the blacklist
04:23
Lee Grant on the fate of her then-husband Arnold Manoff, who'd been blacklisted, and on how other writers and actors dealt with the Hollywood Blacklist
03:37
Lee Grant on her feelings on those who named names to the House Un-American Activities Committee like Elia Kazan, and on the end of the blacklist
07:53
Lee Grant on how the Hollywood Blacklist affected television as a whole
01:28
Lee Grant on appearing on Search for Tomorrow and on being fired because of the blacklist
04:45
Roy Huggins on joining the Communist Party
05:28
Roy Huggins on how his communist leanings impacted the work he was doing as a novelist
02:01
Roy Huggins on writing the feature film "Hangman's Knot" and being placed on the Hollywood Blacklist
09:41
Roy Huggins on writing and directing the feature "Hangman's Knot" despite being blacklisted
04:16
Roy Huggins on being subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and naming names
11:02
Lamont Johnson on working with Fay Wray, and on the Hollywood Blacklist
02:25
Lamont Johnson on being on the Hollywood Blacklist, and on producer Albert McCleery disregarding it to hire him
07:32
Lamont Johnson on dealing with the Hollywood Blacklist, and later directing many issue-oriented shows like My Sweet Charlie
03:04
Jeff Kisseloff on interviewing former president of CBS Frank Stanton about the Hollywood Blacklist
03:05
Jeff Kisseloff on covering controversial topics like the Blacklist for his book "The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1929-1961"
02:14
Jeff Kisseloff on Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's See It Now "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy"
02:49
Jeff Kisseloff on his interview with Twenty-One producer Al Freeman, Jr. and attempting to interview Charles Van Doren
08:03
Ring Lardner, Jr. on being called before the House Un-American Activities Committee
16:16
Ring Lardner, Jr. on the experience of testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
07:56
Ring Lardner, Jr. on the experience of testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
05:53
Ring Lardner, Jr. on being cited for contempt by the House Un-American Activities Committee and going to jail, and on the Hollywood Ten
08:58
Ring Lardner, Jr. on writing under pseudonyms after being blacklisted
05:35
Ring Lardner, Jr. on writing under pseudonyms after being blacklisted
05:35
Ring Lardner, Jr. on serving time for contempt of Congress
04:51
Ring Lardner, Jr. on his experiences writing for The Adventures of Robin Hood under a pseudonym during the Hollywood Blacklist era
08:38
Ring Lardner, Jr. on the McCarthy hearings, and on the end of the Hollywood Blacklist
05:55
Ring Lardner, Jr. on the fear and paranoia of the Hollywood Blacklist, and on writing various feature films
05:54
Ring Lardner, Jr. on why he believes the Hollywood Blacklist happened
02:52
Ring Lardner, Jr. on how his experience with the Hollywood Blacklist shaped his writing, and on how he'd like to be remembered
02:09
Sidney Lument on the correspondents of You Are There, and on their political affiliations and the Blacklist
10:52
Sidney Lumet on his experience with the Hollywood Blacklist
07:01
Sidney Lumet on individuals that were targeted by the Hollywood Blacklist, including Walter Bernstein, and on blacklisted writers
08:14
Sidney Lumet on various television scripts that were covertly about the Hollywood Blacklist
05:31
Bill Melendez on the Hollywood Blacklist
01:53
Bill Melendez on Disney animators going on strike in 1941 and Walt Disney's reaction to the strike
02:35
Bill Melendez on the Disney animators strike of 1941, on the leader of the strike, and Walt Disney's response to the strike
08:00
Sig Mickelson on his experiences with the Hollywood Blacklist at CBS News
08:29
Sig Mickelson on the blacklisting of CBS News correspondent Winston Burdett
04:33
Sig Mickelson on the atmosphere at CBS News during the period of the Hollywood Blacklist, and his memories of the time
02:05
Sig Mickelson on the publication "Red Channels," and on the Hollywood Blacklist
04:37
Sig Mickelson on signing a loyalty oath for CBS News and on other issues connected with the Red Scare
05:42
Abraham Polonsky on the Hollywood Blacklist
04:27
Abraham Polonsky on testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
02:42
Abraham Polonsky on Elia Kazan's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and on working in the aftermath
04:39
Abraham Polonsky on using pen names during the Hollywood Blacklist
03:48
Abraham Polonsky on his career after the Hollywood Blacklist
00:55
Abraham Polonsky on Elia Kazan, if the Hollywood Blacklist could happen again, and on his and his family's politics
06:11
David Pressman on learning his was blacklisted and being fired from Treasury Men in Action
05:02
David Pressman on being blacklisted; on teaching at Boston University from 1954-1959 during his unemployment; on then running the Neighborhood Playhouse; on the end of the blacklist; on trying to get jobs in television during the blacklist period; on David Susskind hiring him for television
08:53
David Pressman on how being blacklisted affected him
04:47
David Pressman on "secretly" directing The Philip Morris Playhouse while he was blacklisted
06:27
David Pressman on the Hollywood Blacklist happening again
01:12
Del Reisman on the advent of the Hollywood Blacklist, and on being asked to sign a "loyalty oath" for NBC
02:21
Del Reisman on getting an internal memo from CBS with names of writers and actors they were forbidden to hire because of their blacklisted status
06:58
Del Reisman on the Screenwriters Guild's participation in the Hollywood Blacklist
03:42
Del Reisman on the use of "fronts" to get around the Hollywood Blacklist
05:12
Del Reisman on how the Hollywood Blacklist impacted him, and on the end of the blacklist era
06:15
Del Reisman on his association with the Writers Guild of America West
02:43
Del Reisman on the Writers Guild strike of 1988
05:08
Del Reisman on the Writers Guild getting restitution for formerly blacklisted writers
03:56
Mel Shavelson on Bob Hope doing jokes about Senator Joseph McCarthy
01:40
Mel Shavelson on his experience with the Hollywood Blacklist and on the societal impact of television
09:39
Mel Shavelson on a directors strike
06:12
Mel Shavelson on writers strikes
01:27
Frank Stanton on Edward R. Murrow's commentary on Senator Joseph McCarthy
04:51
Frank Stanton on the policies invoked at CBS during the blacklist period, and on the loyalty oath
04:33
Frank Stanton on the Quiz Show Scandals
01:35
Frank Stanton on CBS and the Hollywood Blacklist
07:44
Frank Stanton on the quiz show scandals
03:10
Herbert Stempel on becoming involved with Twenty-One via producer Dan Enright
03:58
Herbert Stempel on Dan Enright prepping him to "act" and cheat on Twenty-One, and on dealing with host Jack Barry
06:01
Herbert Stempel on the format of Twenty-One and how the game was played
01:31
Herbert Stempel on the broadcast facilities and set of Twenty-One, including the "isolation booth"
02:23
Herbert Stempel on his first Twenty-One opponents having been coached as he had been
01:32
Herbert Stempel on the aftermath of his first appearance on Twenty-One and on the scripted banter on the show
02:03
Herbert Stempel on his initial lack of recognition from being on Twenty-One, and on meeting with producer Dan Enright before each air time to get instructions and answers
04:17
Herbert Stempel on the details of the monetary wins on Twenty-One
02:42
Herbert Stempel on telling some friends early on that Twenty-One was rigged
00:52
Herbert Stempel on the other members of the Twenty-One team including host Jack Barry
02:05
Herbert Stempel on the producers inadvertently giving him a wrong answer to a question on Twenty-One
02:11
Herbert Stempel on Charles Van Doren, his final "opponent" on Twenty-One
01:16
Herbert Stempel on finally being "defeated" by Charles Van Doren on Twenty-One
03:24
Herbert Stempel on Dan Enright reneging on his promises to Stempel after his run Twenty-One
03:27
Herbert Stempel on contacting the DA's office and testifying about the misconduct on the set of Twenty-One
03:51
Herbert Stempel on appearing on the PBS American Experience episode "The Quiz Show Scandal"
02:58
Herbert Stempel on his involvement in Robert Redford's feature film "Quiz Show" in which John Turturro played Stempel
05:58
Herbert Stempel on the impact of the Quiz Show Scandals on America and his being asked to return to play on the revived version of Twenty-One, and on trying out for Jeopardy!
03:43
Herbert Stempel on the so-called Stempel law, and his then-current dealings with the public
02:24
Herbert Stempel on the legacy of the Quiz Show Scandals
00:50
Herbert Stempel on having his credibility questioned when he testified about misconduct on the set of Twenty-One
04:49
Joseph Wershba on CBS reporter Don Hollenbeck committing suicide after having been accused of Communist sympathy
01:37
Joseph Wershba on CBS reporter Don Hollenbeck committing suicide after having been accused of Communist sympathies
02:49
Joseph Wershba on working on the See It Now story about reserve Air Force lieutenant Milo Radulovich
04:16
Joseph Wershba on working on the See It Now story about reserve Air Force lieutenant Milo Radulovich
29:18
Joseph Wershba on Edward R. Murrow's "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" on See It Now
27:29
Joseph Wershba on being made to sign a "loyalty oath" by CBS
06:54
Jane Wyatt on her recollections of the Hollywood Blacklist and her involvement with the CFA (Committee for the First Amendment)
04:29
Jane Wyatt on protesting the Hollywood Blacklist
02:10
Jane Wyatt on learning she had been blacklisted
01:50
Jane Wyatt on why she believes the Blacklist era happened
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