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Herb Stempel, the contestant on NBC's 'Twenty-One' who helped expose the rigged television quiz shows of the 1950s after he was "beaten" by Charles Van Doren, has died. He was 93.
Herbert Stempel, the contestant on NBC’s “Twenty-One” who helped uncover the quiz show rigging scandals of the 1950s, died on April 7 at the age of 93. His death, which had not been publicly ...
Herb Stempel, who had been scripted to lose on the show “Twenty-One,” testified at a congressional hearing in 1959 investigating the rigging of TV quiz shows.
Herb Stempel, the whistleblower portrayed in 'Quiz Show,' dies at 93. As a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One in 1956, Stempel went public with the revelation that he was given the answers to questions.
Herb Stempel, the federal whistleblower who exposed how the NBC game show “Twenty-One” was manipulated for ratings, died last month at the age of 93.
Herbert Stempel, most famously known as the whistleblower in the TV quiz show scandals of the 1950s, died this past April. He was 93 years old. According to the New York Times, Stempel's death was ...
And Stempel was a loyal enough soldier to try to save it during its bad years. Unfortunately for him, and the company, he was badly miscast. First Published: May 10, 2011: 5:21 PM ET ...
Herbert Stempel, the Bronx-born brainiac who became a central figure and whistleblower in the game show rigging scandals of the 1950s, a cultural turning point later chronicled in the 1994 movie ...
Herbert Stempel, a fall guy and whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a 1950s quiz show helped drive a national scandal and join his name in history to ...