Wrote and produced two television movies, 20 years apart, but with totally different stories, both of which had Thurgood Marshall as the central, real life, character. The first was Separate But Equal (1991), and the second was Thurgood (2011).
Was saved from drowning in a pool by Johnny Weissmuller.
A 1962 encounter with Edward R. Murrow led him to produce 300 short documentaries a year for the United States Information Agency.