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David Susskind (December 19, 1920, New York City - February 22, 1987, New York City, heart attack) was best known as a pioneer TV talk show host. His program, Open End, began in 1958 on WNTA-TV in New York City, and was appropriately titled: the program continued until Susskind or his guests were too tired to continue. In 1961 Open End was constrained to two hours and went into national syndication. The show was retitled The David Susskind Show in 1967 and continued until 1986. In the entertainment and news industries, syndication is a method of making content available to a range of outlets simultaneously. ...


During his almost 30-year run as a talk show host, Susskind covered many controversial topics of the day, such as race relations and the Vietnam War. Susskind's interview of Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev, which aired in October 1960, during the height of the cold war, generated national attention. Jump to: navigation, search The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies—notably the United States... Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв) (nih-KEE-tah khroo-SHCHYOFF) (April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... Jump to: navigation, search For the generic term for a high-tension rivalry between countries, see cold war (war). ...


Susskind was also a noted producer, with scores of movies, plays, and TV programs to his credit. He married (and later divorced) Joyce Davidson, a Canadian-American television personality.

External links
  • Museum of Broadcast Communications entry on David Susskind
  • IMDB entry on David Susskind

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Chiropractic Debate on David Susskind Show (1981) (6830 words)
Susskind: Isn't that a little bit suspicious, the idea that you are not medical doctors, you have a degree granted in four years which is not recognized as a real department of education at any of the great state universities or any of the private colleges.
Susskind: One thing that disturbed me in the research we did was that at a Clinic Masters seminar for chiropractors in 1978, one topic on the agenda was "How to Achieve the Optimum Gettable with Every Patient." That sort of suggests a kind of a how-can-you-rip-em-off.
Sportelli: David, I want to tell you that there's no way that that can be defended, and no chiropractor in any position of authority or leadership would condone any of that nonsense in terms of the practice management people who have anything less than an ethical basis for their practice.
Susskind, David (856 words)
David Susskind was a key "mover-and-shaker" in the television industry during the medium's golden age and continued to take a high profile as a media personality long after the gold turned to waste, through some kind of reverse alchemy.
Described by his critics as "combative," "controversial," "blunt," "endearingly narcissistic," Susskind once aspired to be "the Cecil B. DeMille of television." As a self-styled "iconoclast" and "rebel," Susskind cultivated a reputation as a television insider who was an outspoken critic of the medium and its mediocrity.
Susskind died alone in a hotel room of a heart attack at age 66 in 1987.
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