He was the central figure in the TV game show scandals of the 1950s and pleaded guilty to perjury for lying to a grand jury that investigated them.
Charles Van Doren, a former Columbia University instructor, speaks to reporters as he leaves special sessions court in New York on Jan. 17, 1962.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.HARTFORD, Conn.
"It's been hard to get away, partly because the man who cheated on 'Twenty-One' is still part of me," he wrote in a 2008 New Yorker essay, his first public comment in years. "Just by being himself," Time wrote,"he has enabled a giveaway show, the crassest of lowbrow entertainments, to whip up a doting mass audience for a new kind of TV idol — of all things, an egghead."
After spending much of the 1960s and '70s in Chicago, Van Doren and his wife, Geraldine, returned to Connecticut, residing for years in a small brown bungalow on the family compound. They did some teaching but largely lived in semi-seclusion, refusing to grant interviews and even leaving the country for several weeks when Robert Redford's film"Quiz Show" was released in the fall of 1994.
"People who knew the entertainment business didn't have much doubt about what was going on, although they didn't speak out," he wrote.He also disclosed that he eventually did watch"Quiz Show" and laughed at an insulting reference that a character made about him. He said he had been tempted to take a consulting fee from the producers, but his wife talked him out of it.
Stempel later went public and said contestants were fed the answers to the questions prior to the show. He said he was told to lose because the show's producers thought Van Doren had star potential.
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