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. Senator said wi "W"Ras' ; notified KING-TV that he “wil! ie a request to the Federal Com: ‘munication Commiseion te have bi GARTHY. ob mun mission : PALK CANCELED se: VERDELETIONS == Senotor Won't sf Sub mit ‘The Senator said that tf he sub. _To Speech Censorship mitted to such mld five “nO ican ever could "(Picture op Daily Graphic, speech on a station controlled by Page 10.) a Democrat, no Democrat ever peould deliver a speech on a ate scheduled speech on KING. MATERIAL — TV was canceled Thursday] ‘This is the material which the night because, the mittee station found objection- at Kiccanny per I the st station ob | Jected to portions of his speech | dealing with the staff of Col-’ umnist Drew Pearson. The tebevi-_ sion station, he sald, wanted him to substitute for those portions the Jollowing words: - “Did you know that two of men whe worked on Pear. on s staff are reputed former 'gaid, he refused to permit the ‘gtation to censor his s McCarthy told The *Post-Intelti- 'gencer he submitted a script to the station, but Was told, shortly before he was to go on the atr,! t certain deletions would have | | be made. The Senator refused! ltd speak under that condition and e telecast was cancejed. Senaior McCarthy said the ata- low canceled the broadcast with. “Perhaps the people of Wash- . fineton State ane ned ewes thet Drew Pearson has jong bad as his leg man, one David Carr alias D. Katz, who worked the official Communist paper, the Dally Worker, and then write man for the Commo nist Party Organizer and then graduated to Pearson's staff. “Another member of Prar- non'a staff was Andrew Older, & Teen proven to be a Comme- nist by FBI undercover agents. Pearson simiited he knew thos Older was a Communist while he was doing Pearson's writing. | ut authority to do s0. McCarthy sald | “I take the position thet in a peid political ‘telecaat, the sta- | fion dors not have any right to eensor a speech.” Pearson said he t on trying Mccarthy told The Post-Intelli-! to scters bine” gencer he was ready, “until the? Otto Brandt, vice president and last minute,” to deliver thelpenera) manager of King Broad. gpeech he had planned. However, [cating Co.. said: the said, the station refused to kt e Senator submitied his him do this. pt late this afternoon, and | it contained references to two ‘ERRONEOUS — . | a| Individuals on the staff of a The station broadcast the ex. national columnist and abeged - zs = #heéd tren Coumiunkt— roneous message, hé said, that ‘84 they were Comununts j e had canceled the program. peated | hearsay taforme- “] stayed there and to that effect. tnd attorneys felt that if that materta] were false, it — that in the event there is a can- didate for public office speak- ~ ' fng in behalf of his own can- 7 didacy, the station canno( cen- aor the ecript because of Hbel- eax :oleesceune Lain ual speaks tn Debait of another febjecied-to Ser that stucon lable be sat By SEATTLE BOTT INTELLIGENCER ; many individuals se defy. C17 24 195? ENCLOSHF would be ifbejous. | “Our attorneys sdvised us | give © PE PLANATION— | “We aloo were advised fn order te protect the it Is necessary for the statio to require eatistactory proof of such proof, libelous material must be deleted. s “This would hold fegardice= party pe roe nator “McCarthy ix eo tn hix assertion “hat a | television station doesn’t have the right to censor a speech. . As & means of self-protection | it is necessary for broadcast- ers to inspect speeches of those peaking in behalf of political didates for potentially -libel- a statements, — In Senator McCarthy's case GTV gladly extended tts normal deadline for script sub- mission approximately 43 | of i EI i C1