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Gordon L. Freedman is an American author and investigator who served on the Watergate Committee, Fraser Committee and U.S. Senate Committee on Civil Service. Freedman co-authored Gifts of Deceit (1980) and Winter of Fire (1990).

Biography

Gordon Freedman grew up in Charlevoix, Michigan and studied at Michigan State University,[1] where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.[2]

Freedman was a member of the United States Senate Watergate Committee, which was established in 1973 to investigate the Watergate scandal involving US President Richard Nixon. Freedman, then a student at Michigan University, drove to Washington, D.C. and stood in line at 5:30 am every morning to listen to the hearings. He then started visiting members of the committee door to door, in the hopes of being able to work on the committee. He was eventually hired by Senator Herman Talmadge's office, and later joined the committee.[3] After Watergate, he worked on Capitol Hill as a researcher and investigator for five years.[4] He was the committee investigator for the United States Senate Committee on Civil Service.[5]

In 1978, he was a staff investigator on the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations during the Koreagate scandal.[2] In 1980, he co-wrote Gifts of Deceit, an account of the Koreagate scandal and the committee's investigations, with Robert Boettcher.[6]

In 1990, Freedman co-wrote Winter of Fire with Richard O. Collin, which dealt with US Army general James L. Dozier's kidnapping by the Italian terrorist group the Red Brigades.[7]

Freedman produced and directed a number of documentaries and biographical films, including the miniseries Baby M. Freedman flew to New Jersey to gather 7,000 pages of transcripts and documents, as well as videotapes from ABC's networks, which formed the basis of the script.[8] Freedman received an Emmy nomination for the miniseries, which aired on ABC in 1988.[9]

In 1991, he produced the documentary film adaptation of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, which was directed by Errol Morris.[10] The film won a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.[11]

References

  1. ^ "How a Michigan State student ended up playing a role in Watergate investigations". mlive. 2017-06-17. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  2. ^ a b Relations, United States Congress House Committee on International; Organizations, United States Congress House Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on International (1978). Investigation of Korean-American Relations: Report of the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 4.
  3. ^ Hesse, Monica (2017-06-14). "What it was like to be 18 and investigating the president during the summer of Watergate". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  4. ^ Council, National Research; Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and; Education, Board on Science; Education, Steering Committee for Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (1998-01-29). Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education: Report of a Workshop. National Academies Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-309-05977-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Lyle, Edward (1978). The Civil Service Commission's Staff and Merit Abuse. U.S. Civil Service Commission. p. 122.
  6. ^ "GIFTS OF DECEIT: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean Scandal". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  7. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Winter of Fire by Richard O. Collin, Author, Gordon L. Freedman, With Dutton Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24880-4". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  8. ^ Span, Paula (1988-04-04). "THE AUTHENTIC 'BABY M'". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  9. ^ "Gordon L. Freedman". Television Academy. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  10. ^ Ferguson, Kitty (2011-11-10). Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4481-1047-6.
  11. ^ "IT'S ABOUT TIME". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
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