Here's an article I've waited a long time to read. Charles Van Doren was a big winner on the famously-rigged TV game program, Twenty-One. The Robert Redford movie, Quiz Show, was mainly about him. For years, people have told the story of Professor Van Doren and dramatized and fictionalized it but he steadfastly declined to speak for himself. He wouldn't give interviews. He declined all offers to write the story from his perspective.
But now he has. In the current New Yorker, he tells the tale…and I tend to believe his account. Since almost everyone involved is deceased, it would not have been difficult for him to spin some aspects of it to be more favorable to him. He does not do this — nor does he argue as some have that the "scandal" was way overblown — leading me to trust the accuracy of what he writes.