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Helen Whitney is an award-winning American documentary filmmaker and producer.[1] She produced a documentary called American Inquisition, which became the subject of a very famous case about First Amendment rights.
American Inquisition examined how McCarthyism had affected the small town of Fairmont, West Virginia.[2] Journalist Victor Lasky sued ABC over his depiction 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 reportedly led to her termination and blacklisting. She later attempted suicide. Lasky maintained that the program inaccurately reported that he had called Mundel a Communist.[citation needed]
Whitney's latest documentary, The Mormons, aired nationally on PBS on April 30 and May 1, 2007. Other work includes the following documentaries:
- Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero (PBS Frontline, 120 minutes)
- John Paul II: The Millennial Pope (PBS Frontline, 150 minutes)
- The Choice '96- (PBS Frontline, 120 minutes)
- Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light (PBS American Masters, 90 minutes)
- Society: Class In Great Britain (Turner Network, 60 minutes)
- They Have Souls Too (ABC Close-Up, 60 minutes)
- American Inquisition (ABC Close-Up, 60 minutes)
- The Monastery (ABC Close-Up, 90 minutes)
- Homosexuals (ABC Close-Up, 60 minutes)
- Youth Terror: The View From Behind The Gun (ABC Close-Up, 60 minutes)
- First Edition (PBS, 30 minutes)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Helen Whitney on BlogTalk Radio about her book Forgiveness
- helenwhitney.com
- Review of "The Mormons"
- NY Times Review of "The Mormons"
[edit] References
- ^ Abrams, Floyd (2005). Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Viking Adult. p. 153. ISBN 0670033758.
- ^ Abrams, Floyd (2005). Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Viking Adult. pp. 153–58. ISBN 0670033758.
- ^ Geoffrey Stone, Supreme Court Tales From the Pleading Side of the Bench (book review), New York Times, April 16, 2005, via University of Chicago School of Law @ Law.UChicago.edu.
- ^ Abrams, Floyd (2005). Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Viking Adult. p. 154. ISBN 0670033758.
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