News in Brief: Washington, Van Doren Faces Quiz Probers
News in Brief: Washington, Van Doren Faces Quiz Probers
Clip: 356525_1_1
Year Shot: 1959
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1664
Original Film: 032-088-03
HD: N/A
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Timecode: 00:47:11 - 00:48:01
News in Brief: Washington, Van Doren Faces Quiz Probers Charles Van Doren, who attained fame as a long time winning contestant on a television quiz show, faces the Orrin Harris Senate Committee hearings in the dramatic high point of the investigation of rigged and fixed quiz shows. In a moving apology to the millions whose friendship and respect he won, he retracts his earlier denials of getting help, and admits receiving the questions, and many of the answers (no nat sound). Scandal. Van Doren's wife and father (?) (father, says VO, is poet Mark Van Doren). Charles Van Doren enters, is seated. Crowded room.