 If this testimony were repeated, it would throw the credibility of the three American journalists into question who the jury believed would be central to winning the case.Helen Whitney was a prize-winning American Broadcasting Company producer and writer who in 1982 devoted half of a one-hour program ("American Inquisition") to the impact McCarthyism had on Fairmont, a small West Virginia town.She focused on Luella Mundel, who chaired the art department at Fairmont State College.