Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Herb Stempel, the federal whistleblower who exposed how the NBC game show “Twenty-One” was manipulated for ratings, died last ...

Herb Stempel, the infamous Queens man who exposed how the NBC game show Twenty-One was built on lies and deceit, has died. He was 93. His April 7 death was confirmed to the New York Times by his ...

Herbert Stempel, most famously known as the whistleblower in the TV quiz show scandals of the 1950s, died this past April. He was 93 years old. According to the New York Times, Stempel's death was ...

Before the TV Quiz Show Scandal broke in the late 1950s, Herbert Stempel was destined to be a little-remembered contestant on the NBC quiz show "Twenty-One." However, as the man who helped expose ...

NEW YORK — Herbert Stempel, a fall guy and whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a 1950s quiz show helped drive a national scandal and join his name in history ...

Herb Stempel, the federal whistleblower who exposed how the NBC game show “Twenty-One” was manipulated for ratings, died last month at the age of 93. His death was confirmed this weekend by Stempel’s ...

Herb Stempel, the contestant on NBC's 'Twenty-One' who helped expose the rigged television quiz shows of the 1950s after he was "beaten" by Charles Van Doren, has died. He was 93. By Mike Barnes ...