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Herbert Stempel

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Herbert Stempel, TV quiz show whistleblower, dies at 93

By HILLEL ITALIEMay 31, 2020 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 winning contestant Charles Van Doren, has died age 93...

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