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Charles Van Doren, a respected scholar, was recruited by the producers of Twenty-One, who wanted to boost the show’s ratings with a dramatic and predetermined defeat of six-week winner Herbert Stempel. Van Doren, who eventually won more than $129,000 on the show, denied any fraud––until he confessed to the House committee in November 1959 that he had been coached.
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