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Game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to cheating - November 2nd, 1959

This Day in History Class

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Aren't You Charles Van Dorn?

Charles Van Dorn and a host of other game show contestants pled guilty to lying to a grand jury that had investigated the quiz show's scandal. Their sentences were suspended, however, because the judge felt that being shamed in front of the nation was punishment enough. For many years afterward, Charles Van Dorn wrote several fiction and non-fiction books under a pen name. He later returned to teaching as an English professor at the University of Connecticut.

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