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CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint

0.0 64 mins Documentary   1961
CBS News Productions  
Director(s): Jay McMullen

Release Date: 30 Thu, Nov 1961

An undercover investigative documentary on illegal bookmaking in Boston, using concealed-camera footage to expose institutional corruption and regulatory failure, and triggering major political and law-enforcement reforms following broadcast. (Note: Originally produced and broadcast as part of CBS Reports, but widely cited, archived, and treated as an independent investigative documentary due to production method, cultural impact, and historical significance.)

Casts of CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint

Walter Cronkite

as Self - Narrator

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