Twenty One and the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals - Game Shows Part I
World's Greatest Con
Charles Van Doren and the Cost of Sham
In 1959, television star and famous intellectual Charles Van Doren gets his doctorate. And yet only months later, he's on the run avoiding phone calls from his lawyer. This is the cost of shame. Once Stemple is called before Congress, he relishes in telling the truth.
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