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...LOYAL OPPOSITION (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Frank McGee analyzes the Republican Party one year before the 1968 nominating convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 7, 1967 | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...detector tests, said NBC, had cast doubt on the testimony of two key witnesses: Vernon Bundy, a 29-year-old narcotics addict, and Perry Raymond Russo, 26, an insurance salesman. A test given Bundy "indicated he was lying," said NBC Anchorman Frank McGee, and "New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Charles Ward was informed of this." Though Ward told Garrison that "in view of the lie-detector test, Bundy should not be allowed to testify," he was overruled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Something of a Shambles | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

Star Witnesses. In Russo's case, McGee reported, reactions to a series of questions led a polygraph operator to suspect deception. Moreover, the test seemed to indicate that Russo had a psychopathic personality. But agents from Garrison's office took the list of questions away from the polygraph operator and told him not to say anything. When Garrison presented his case against Clay Shaw at a hearing, Russo and Bundy were his star witnesses. Garrison insists that Shaw, under the name of Clay Bertrand, met in 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald and David W. Ferric, who committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Something of a Shambles | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...that he ever doubts it himself, but it is not at all unusual to find him at home-like millions of others-tuning in the show that begins, "Here's Johnny!" He thinks it's pretty funny, McGee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midnight Idol | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...strictly show business. He played Cleopatra in a fraternity spectacular called She Was Only a Pharaoh's Daughter, But She Never Became a Mummy. His senior thesis, titled Comedy Writing, was not in manuscript but on tape. Its quotes and footnotes contained excerpts from Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Bob Hope shows. Carson's analysis of timing and his appreciation of other crucial matters was somewhat naive ("A good comedian can get you to buy his sponsor's products"), but "not bad," he insists, "for 18 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midnight Idol | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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