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McMullen was the writer/producer of hard-hitting television documentaries of the 1960s, several of which were distributed to school film libraries. Former president of CBS News (and EP of CBS Reports) Fred W. Friendly once called McMullen "broadcast journalism's first and only investigative reporter... a painfully slow worker who sometimes takes a year to pick his next story. He was a tremendous asset to CBS Reports, but we could only afford one of him. Stubborn and intractable, he could not be rushed and I learned early that I could give him no deadline, not even a year in which a broadcast could be scheduled."

Born in Minneapolis, MN on 8 April, 1921, McMullen honed his investigative properties as an army correspondent in WWII, wining a Bronze Star for his Sunday Night "Army Hour" broadcasts .  He was part of Irv Gitlin's radio team at CBS, producing reports such as:
bulletWho Killed Michael Farmer? (narrated by Edward R. Murrow, about New York street gangs)
bulletChronicle of Terror: the Galindez - Murphy Case (a Columbia University Spanish teacher was kidnapped and killed by agents of Trujillo. Also narrated by Murrow).

McMullen later moved to CBS News, producing documentaries in the 'CBS Reports' series such as:
bulletHoffa & The Teamsters (1959, writer and associate producer)
bulletReal Case of Murder (1961, trial of a 15 year old defendant by the press)
bulletBiography of a Bookie Joint (1961, investigating Boston police corruption)
bulletSilent Spring of Rachel Carson (1963)
bulletThe Verdict of the Silent Spring of Rachel Carson (1963)
bulletThe Business of Heroin (1967, Middle East to Harlem)
bulletThe Tenement (1967, on the subject of substandard housing in Chicago)
bulletCampaign American Style (1968, profile of Republican candidate Sol Wachtler)
bulletPortrait in Black and White (1968, part of CBS News' Of Black America series)
bulletThe Mexican Connection (1972, where he spend eight months in Mexico investigating underground activities)
bulletThe Corporation (1973, big business, featuring Phillips Petroleum)
bulletThe Selling of the F-14 (1976, investigation of controversial selling of F-14 fighter planes to Iran for $2 billion)
bulletThe Baby Makers (1979, focuses on sperm-egg-embryo trade in humans and animals)

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