Helen Whitney
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Helen Whitney is an award-winning producer for the American Broadcasting Corporation.[1] She produced a documentary called American Inquisition, which became the subject of a very famous case about First Amendment rights. The piece examined how McCarthyism had affected the small town of Fairmont, West Virginia.[2] Victor Lasky, "the rightwing journalist" who rose to prominence in the McCarthy era, sued ABC over his depicition in the show.[3] The central issue was whether Lasky had accused Luella Mundel at an American Legion meeting in 1951 of being a Communist. Mundel was the head of the art department of Fairmont State College in Fairmont, West Virginia.[4] In this environment, the question alone led to her termination and blacklisting. She later attempted suicide. Lasky maintained that the program inaccurately reported that he had called Mundel a Communist.
Other work includes the film, "Fear And Doubt at Ground Zero".
Her latest documentary, "The Mormons" will air nationally on PBS on April 30 and May 1.
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- ^ Abrams, Floyd (2005). Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Viking Adult, pg. 153.
- ^ Abrams, Floyd (2005). Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Viking Adult, pp. 153-158.
- ^ Geoffrey Stone, Supreme Court Tales From the Pleading Side of the Bench (book review), The New York Times, April 16, 2005, via Law.UChicago.edu.
- ^ Abrams, Floyd (2005). Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Viking Adult, pg. 154.
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