Dalton Trumbo interviewed by Stan Bohrman

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Published on Jun 21, 2015 James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist. As one of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted; one was originally given to a front writer, and one was awarded to "Robert Rich", Trumbo's pseudonym.

Blacklisting effectively ended in 1960 when it lost credibility. Trumbo was publicly given credit for two blockbuster films: Otto Preminger made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for the smash hit, Exodus,[3] and Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus. Further, President John F. Kennedy crossed picket lines to see the film. On December 19, 2011, the Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo was given full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, sixty years after the fact. Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939.[14] It was inspired by an article Trumbo read several years earlier, concerning the Prince of Wales' hospital visit to a Canadian soldier who had lost all his limbs in World War I.

Stan Bohrman, 63, was a former Channel 3 (KYW-TV) investigative reporter and news anchor who won a variety of accolades during four decades in broadcasting. Raised in Los Angeles, Bohrman worked for the Voice of America in New York and KNX radio in Los Angeles, and appeared as an anchorman in the film "The China Syndrome." In the 1960s he had hosted a daytime talk show, "Tempo II," on KHJ-TV. It was there that he and his co-hosts, Regis Philbin and Maria Cole, widow of Nat (King) Cole, featured celebrity guests, among them anti-war spokesmen in an era when dissent was not popular.