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Quiz Show Whistleblower Herbert Stempel Dies

The Washington Post | by David P. Marino-Nachison

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 Quiz Show, died April 7. He was 93.