CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint (1961)

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Original Title: CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint

Release Date: November 30, 1961

Runtime: 64 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

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.)

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Cast

Walter Cronkite

Self - Narrator

Crew

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