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Michael Reagan, adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, contends that Attorney General of the United States Robert F. Kennedy pressured GE to cancel The General Electric Theater or at least to fire Reagan as the host if the program were to continue. The series was not dropped because of low ratings but political intervention, the younger ...
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Dec 14, 2014 · This was hardly Kennedy's intention, however, when he unscrupulously threatened to cancel government contracts with General Electric unless the company fired the popular host of its Sunday evening television show, General Electric Theater, according to Reagan biographer and former aide Thomas C. Reed in his new book, "The Reagan Enigma: 1964-1980."
Jan 8, 2016 · After Robert Kennedy subpoenaed Reagan’s tax returns from 1952 to 1955, hoping to find evidence of a payoff from MCA, Reagan told his children that Kennedy had pressured GE to cancel his...
Feb 5, 2011 · But I haven't felt warm and fuzzy toward GE since that day in 1962 when Dad came home and told us he had just been fired by GE and his show, "General Electric Theater," was canceled.
However, on October 27, 1964, two years after he had left GE, Reagan delivered a nationally-televised speech in support of conservative Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate for...
Aug 25, 2020 · In 1959 SAG reelected Reagan as its president, a move that coincided with a period of labor unrest involving television residuals. even though Reagan owned a stake in General Electric Theater, he was instrumental in resolving the strike.
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The General Electric Theater left the air in 1962 in a welter of controversy surrounding the US Justice Department’s antitrust investigation of MCA and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) talent waivers granted to MCA Revue.
