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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
They can't re-animate him again?
I thought he was a likable guy. But my pop culture teacher hated him. He said when Congress? A trial? Dang abused brain! Anyway it had something to do with payola. He said Alan Freed refused to walk the line they wanted (morality, r&r or something along those lines) and it broke him. But Clark did.
Just talking, his name set off my remaining synapse and triggered a distant memory 
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Dick beat that rap in 1961(2?), and yes it was a congressional committee that accused him of taking "Payola". They couldn't prove it and he walked.
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