Episode 9“Oh Howard, You Idiot!”
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Howard Hughes lands his plane after completing a record-breaking flight from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey
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A billionaire turned recluse befriends a minor novelist. Together they seize the public’s imagination. Kind of. The true story behind the greatest autobiography you’ve never read.
Sources and Links
- Orson Welles’ Fake
- Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth
Autobiography of Howard Hughes by Clifford Irving (Terrificbooks.com)- The Hoax: A Memoir by Clifford Irving
Sources and Links
- Voice actor Alex Robertson
- BBC Motion Gallery / Getty Images
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Footage supplied by CBS News