Francis Newton Littlejohn

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Francis Newton Littlejohn was the news director at the American Broadcasting Company that made the decision to cover the Army-McCarthy Hearings live, from gavel to gavel. [1]

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  1. ^ "Francis Littlejohn Dies. Aired Full McCarthy Hearings on ABC.", Washington Post, December 9, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-03-15. "Francis Newton "Fritz" Littlejohn, 97, news director at ABC in 1954 when the network provided gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Army- McCarthy hearings, died of cardiac arrest November 24 at his home in New York City." 
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