Philbrick was Here (was Re: real-life Vineland, cont'd)

Ann Oy annoy at innocent.com
Sat Jan 22 09:19:00 CST 2000


davemarc wrote:
>Let's go back to the Tubal days of yester-year....
>
. . .
>I Led Three Lives
>Syndicated Series
>May 1953--mid-1956
>
. . .three lives--average citizen, member of the
>Communist Party, and counterspy for the FBI.  For obvious reasons the
>names, dates, and places have been changed, but the story is based on
>fact."
. . .
>As for those involved in the series, they saw the program primarily as a
>profit-maker.  "We're not trying to deliver a message," stated the
>production company, Ziv.  "That's not our field.  Our chief purpose is to
>find good story properties, turn them into good films, and sell them." 
>. . .
>Most politically motivated was author Philbrick, whose new career as a
>lecturer and writer on the Communist menace was boosted no end by this hit
>series.  Philbrick continues to lecture to this day [1995], and currently
>[1995] puts out a newsletter from Washington, D.C.
. . .
>davemarc
> 

Aw, come on. Which part is the lie?




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