Herb Stempel, whose admission that television game shows were fixed led to a major scandal and congressional investigation, has died. He passed at age 93 on April 7, but his death just recently cam…
Stempel was born in the Bronx on Dec. 19, 1926. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and scored at genius level on an I.Q. test. He was in the Army from 1946 to 1952 and thenenrolled at City College under the G.I. Bill.In exchange for losing to Van Doren, who participated in the plot, Stempel was promised more television work. When that didn’t happen, Stempel went public. That led to a conviction of Van Doren for a misdemeanor and a suspended sentence.
At a 1959 congressional hearing, Stempel said he had not returned his quiz show money because he felt he had earned it. “May I say that I was not a quiz contestant in this program, in my opinion. I was an actor, as you probably have noticed by watching the kinescope.”
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