Authors: Richard A. Lertzman,William J. Birnes
Dr. Lawrence Hatterer—psychiatrist, treated JFK
Dr. Leslie K. Iverson—author, Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University, UK
Dr. Myra Hatterer—psychiatrist
Dr. Robert Dallek—historian, author
Dr. Thomas Jacobson—cardiologist, son of Max Jacobson
Dwayne Hickman—actor
Ed Asner—actor
Eddie Carroll—actor
Eddie Fisher—singer
Eddie Kritzer—television producer
Eileen Wesson—actress
Frank Bank—actor
Frank Cullen—film historian
Fred Westbock—agent
Frederick Kempe—author, journalist and President of Atlantic Council
Gary Owens—television and radio performer
George Cukor—film director
George Greely—composer
Gerald Clarke—author
Gore Vidal—author
Gregory Jackson—archivist
Hal Kanter—film director, writer, producer
Hank Messick—author (“Silent Syndicate”)
Herbie Pilato—author
Irma Kalish—television writer
Irving Brecher—writer
Jake Schultz—author
Jamie Farr—actor
Jane Brody—journalist, author
Jane Leavy—journalist, author
Jason Wingreen—actor
Jay Kanter—agent
Jeanette Seaver—publisher
Jeff Jonas—television historian
Jenni Matz—Archive of American Television
Jerry Lewis—film comedian
Jill Jacobson—daughter of Max Jacobson
Joan Howard Maurer—daughter of Moe Howard
Joan Roberts Hickman—actress
Joey Bishop—actor, comic
Judy Jashinsky—artist
Julie Eichhorst—FBI
Julie Newmar—actress, author
Juliet Cumings Shaw—archivist, artist, author
Ken McKnight—official at Dept. of Commerce
Larry Flynt—Publisher
Larry Gelbart—writer
Larry King—TV talk show host
Laura Leff—curator of Jack Benny estate
Laurel Cummings Jones—daughter of Bob Cummings
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Stern—producer, writer, publisher
Lincoln Ware—Talk Show Host
Linda Henning—actress
Linda Jay Geldens—author
Lois Linkletter—writer
Lon Davis—film historian
Lori Saunders—actress
Mark Evanier—television writer, historian
Matthew Jacobson—grandson of Max Jacobson
Max Baer, Jr.—actor
Max Diamond—convicted ‘bootlegger”
Melinda Cummings Cameron—daughter of Bob Cummings
Michael Samek—decorated War hero, executive, friend of Max Jacobson
Michelle Cummings— daughter of Bob Cummings
Milton Berle—TV host, comedian (interview was in 1995)
Monte Aidem—comedy writer (
Tonight Show
)
Nancy Reagan—First Lady
Ned Comstock—USC Film and Television Archives
Nigel Hamilton—historian, author
Nina Burleigh—journalist and author
Norman Brokaw—agent, former Chairman of William Morris Agency
Pamela Shoop—actress
Pat Suzuki—actress/singer
Patricia Cummings—daughter of Bob Cummings
Patty Andrews—singer (Andrew Sisters)
Paul Landis—Eisenhower and Kennedy Secret Service Agent
Paul Sheffrin—publicist
Phyllis McGuire—singer
Rachel Lansing (Joi)—actress
Reinhart Peschke—Cinematographer
Richard Reeves—historian, journalist, author
Richard Seaver—publisher
Robert “Bob” Easton—actor, director
Robert “Bob” Finkel—television producer
Robert Child, film director
Robert Cummings, Jr.— son of Bob Cummings
Robert Osborne—television host, journalist, actor
Robin Klein—actress
Roddy McDowell—actor
Roger Rapoport—author, journalist
Ron Palumbo—film historian
Roscoe Lee Browne—actor
Rose Marie—actress
Ruth Jacobson—wife of Max Jacobson
Sam Denoff
Sam Irvin—film director, author
Seymour Hersh—journalist, author
Shawn Levy—author, film critic
Sheila James Kuehl—actress and State Senator
Sheldon Keller—TV Writer
Sid Caesar—TV Host, actor
Sidney Omar—astrologer
Stanley Frazen—film editor
Stone “Bud” Widney—Broadway Producer ( with Alan Jay Lerner)
Stuart Shostak—television historian
Tania Grossinger—author
Ted Wionicek—writer
Terry Pluto—sports columnist, author
Thomas Putnam—Director of the Kennedy Museum
Tom Claire—television historian
Toni Bradlee—socialite
Tony Curtis—actor, author
Tracy Hotchner—animal activist, radio host
Valentina Quinn—actress, author
Van Cliburn
Vicki Bronstein—publicist
Vicki Lawrence—actress
Wallace Seawell—photographer
William Asher—film and television director
William Schallert—actor
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A
Abbe, Patience, 51
Adderall, 64
Addison’s disease, 12, 17, 18, 132
Adler, Alfred, 33, 45
Agnew, Spiro T., 141, 151, 152
Ailing, Aging, Addicted: Studies of Compromised Leadership
(Park), 165
Alcoholism, 18, 50, 105, 106, 115, 132
Allen, Mel, 107–109
Altman, Lawrence K., 151–154
Amphetamines, 4, 97, 148, 161, 162, 169
research on, 49
in tablet form, 63, 64
Amvitol, 62
Aronson, Alvin, 141, 162, 163, 171
B
Bay of Pigs invasion, 91, 92, 98, 100, 126, 130
Belafoline, 48
Benzedrine, 50
Bier, Auguste, 41–43, 47
Bishop, John, 169, 170
Blackstone, Milton, 75–77
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), 147, 149
C
Cantor, Eddie, 77, 78
Capote, Truman, 19, 23, 78, 112, 113
Charité University Hospital, 43, 45, 47, 49
Chayefsky, Paddy, 78
Choline, 47
Churchill, Sir Winston, 71
Claoué, Charles, 58
Cohen, Eugene, 122
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, 171
Constructive Research Foundation, 65, 149, 157
Controlled Substances Act (CSA), 148, 171, 172
Corso, Philip J., 127, 128
Cuban missile crisis, 100, 122, 128, 133
Cummings, Bob
addiction to drug, 79–82
decline of, 83–89
D
DeMille, Cecil B., 66–74
Dextroamphetamine, 63
Dopamine, 49
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 161
Dulles, Allen, 126, 127, 132, 135
F
Fisher, Eddie, 10, 15, 19, 76–78, 106
Freud, Sigmund, 45, 46
Freymann, Robert, 169, 170
G
Gangrene, 34
Ghostley, Alice, 107
Gynergen, 48
H
Hagen, Nina, 52, 65, 69, 70, 170, 171
Hatterer, Lawrence, 23, 24, 125, 126
Heston, Charlton, 67, 72
Hickman, Dwayne, 81
Hitler, Adolf, 52, 53, 61, 131, 165, 166, 168
Hoover, J. Edgar, 9, 132, 135
Hotchner, A. E., 141–146
I
Infectious austeomyelitis, 33
Isophan, 51
Iversen, Leslie, 64, 65
J
Jacobson, Louis, 26, 27
Jacobson, Max
addiction to methamphetamines, 45, 65, 145, 166
BNDD raid of office, 147
celebrity patients of, 66
in Czechoslovakia, 55–57
as diagnostician, 41
family of, 25–27
FBI surveillance of office, 8, 9
impact of life and practices of, 3–4
influence in entertainment industry, 75–89
influence on DeMille, 66–74
interest in biochemistry, 41, 47