Footnote #: 245
Refers to Image: Newspaper headline
Time: 00:49:24
Truth Value: Invention, Omission, Verified
We created this headline in Photoshop. None of the real ones were this clear. But Brinkley indeed sued Fishbein for libel, asserting that he was owed $250,000 in damages.
By the way, by 1939 Brinkley had already sued Fishbein, the Kansas City Star, the AMA and many others quite a number of times, which we’ve left out of the film.