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Barry Lando
Born (1939-06-08) 8 June 1939 (age 85)
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Journalist, Author and Producer
TelevisionCBS' 60 Minutes
Websitehttp://BarryMLando.com/

Barry Lando (born June 8, 1939) is a Canadian journalist, author, and former producer for CBS' 60 Minutes.[1]

Career

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Lando graduated from Harvard University in 1961[2] and Columbia University.[citation needed] He was a producer for 60 Minutes for over 25 years, most of those producing stories for Mike Wallace.[3] Lando produced the first interview with the Ayatollah Khomeini after the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, which aired 14 days after the hostages were captured.[4] Another famous story he produced was on the 1990 Temple Mount riots.[5] Wallace said of Lando and another producer, "if it wasn't for [Marion Goldin] and Barry there would be no 60 Minutes."[6]

Lando pioneered the use of hidden cameras for investigative television reporting.[6] He was awarded a George Polk award for Television Reporting in 1977.[7] Lando and Wallace won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award in 1990 for the segment "40,000 a Day."[8] Lando also won two Emmys at 60 Minutes.[9]

In 2004, Lando collaborated with Michel Despratx to produce a documentary for Canal+ called "Saddam Hussein, the Trial the World Will Never See."[10] Lando's 2007 book, Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush, covered 85 years of Western intervention in Iraq.[11][12] Lando has written for The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, and Le Monde.[9]

Herbert v. Lando

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Colonel Anthony Herbert sued Lando and Wallace for libel for a 1973 60 Minutes broadcast that painted Herbert as a liar.[13] The case reached the United States Supreme Court as Herbert v. Lando 441 U.S. 153 (1979).[14][15] It was part of a series of appellate cases that set the boundaries of the press's right to publish information about private and public figures and an important authority for plaintiffs in defamation cases.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ O'Keefe, Derrick (January 31, 2007). "Web of Deceit By Barry M. Lando". Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Students to Start New Publication". Harvard Crimson. March 10, 1962. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  3. ^ Lando, Barry (June 9, 2012). "My Quarter Century With Mike Wallace". Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  4. ^ "1970s: Talking back to the Ayatollah Khomeini". CBS News. 7 April 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  5. ^ Lando, Barry (April 12, 2012). "Remembering Mike Wallace, A Jew Unafraid of the Truth". Forward. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. ^ a b Rader, Peter (2012). Mike Wallace: A Life. Macmillan. ISBN 9781466802254. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  7. ^ "1977 George Polk Award Winners". Long Island University. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  8. ^ Carmody, John (April 11, 1990). "The TV Column". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  9. ^ a b "Barry Lando". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Saddam's fair trial documentary". SBS. October 25, 2004. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  11. ^ "WEB OF DECEIT by Barry Lando". Kirkus Reviews. November 15, 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  12. ^ "Barry Lando on 'The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush'". Democracy Now!. January 30, 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  13. ^ Lubasch, Arnold H. (January 16, 1986). "COURT THROWS OUT LIBEL SUIT FILED AGAINST CBS BY COLONEL". New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  14. ^ "HERBERT v. LANDO". FindLaw. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  15. ^ Gray, Brian E. (1978). "Herbert v. Lando: State of Mind Discovery and the New York Times v. Sullivan Libel Balance" (PDF). Cal. L. Rev. 66 (5): 1127–1148. doi:10.2307/3479908. JSTOR 3479908. Retrieved July 8, 2015.

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