The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair
8/20/2022 | 25m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
The California campaign that gave birth to the political attack ad.
In 1934, famed writer and socialist Upton Sinclair swept the Democratic primary for governor of California, leading a mass End Poverty movement. To defeat him that fall, his opponents created one of the dirtiest, and most influential, campaigns in U.S. history, and Hollywood took its first all-out plunge into politics. Directed by Greg Mitchell and Produced by Lyn Goldfarb.
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The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair is a local public television program presented by PBS SoCal
The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair
8/20/2022 | 25m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
In 1934, famed writer and socialist Upton Sinclair swept the Democratic primary for governor of California, leading a mass End Poverty movement. To defeat him that fall, his opponents created one of the dirtiest, and most influential, campaigns in U.S. history, and Hollywood took its first all-out plunge into politics. Directed by Greg Mitchell and Produced by Lyn Goldfarb.
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Preview: 8/20/2022 | 30s | The California campaign that gave birth to the political attack ad. (30s)
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