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Critics clash on TV violence at Johnson panel
Washington critics and network executives debated the impact of televised violence at a President Johnson commission hearing. Leonard Berkowitz and Percy Tannenbaum defended depictions of gore while CBS official Joseph Klapper argued laboratory studies mislead. The two day session examined whether violence on screen influences delinquency and viewer behavior.
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Tannenbaum
Broadcast Network
Joseph T. Klapper
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Commission
W. Waller Menninger
Topeka
Kan
Klapper
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Network