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Susskind, the television producer and one of the country's earliest and best-known television talk-show hosts, was found dead, apparently of natural causes, yesterday afternoon in his hotel suite in midtown Manhattan. He was 66 years old. ... According to the police, Mr. Susskind had been under
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was the first television show to use the recently invented ten-second broadcast delay. This gave the control room time to delete material deemed unfit for broadcast, especially from telephone call-ins. Davidson had a hand in the on-air version of the show and among other duties screened viewer phone
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Susskind was also a noted producer, with scores of movies, plays, and TV programs to his credit. His legacy is that of a producer of intelligent material at a time when TV had left its golden years behind and had firmly planted its feet in programming which had wide appeal, whether or not it was
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for its telecast on Sunday night, October 2, 1966. In the 1960s it was the first nationally broadcast television talk show to feature people speaking out against
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Susskind was married twice. Both of his marriages ended in divorce. In 1939, he married
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In 1987 at the age of 66, Susskind suffered a fatal heart attack in New York City, hours after Andy Warhol died, also in
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for the interviews over a number of days, Susskind asked Truman why he hadn't been invited into the home. According to presidential historian
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