If it's true that we're known by the company we keep, then Texas humorist, First Amendment Advocate, "Hee Haw's homespun philosopher, and 1950's media blacklist buster, John Henry Faulk's character was first quality. His story intersects some of America's best and brightest: Eugene Victor Debs, the "Texas Triumvirate," Edward R. Murrow, Mark Goodson, Louis Nizer, Myrna Loy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe Papp, and host of others. Consciously risking a lucrative television career, he seized "the buz... |