Stempel blew the whistle on the rigged “Twenty-One” game show only because they didn’t give him everything they had promised him. The poor sap did not realize that he was a patsy from day one.
Who knows? Had NBC not been so careless, Twenty-One” might still be on today. Still rigged, but now hosted by Hillary Clinton.
It was quite a scheme by the producers. But Charles Van Doren certainly had more charisma. I met him at a VA Clinic some years ago. Interesting guy. Had gone on to build quite a life and did well after the dust settled on the scandal.