Greg Mitchell

Article summary

Greg Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and journalist. He has written twelve non-fiction books on United States politics and history of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has also written and directed five film documentaries, all distributed since 2022 by PBS. The feature Atomic Cover-up (2021) screened at over fifteen film festivals and won multiple awards including the top film/TV award from the Organization of American Historians in 2024. The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair aired over hundreds of PBS stations in October 2022 and The Memorial Day Massacre did the same in 2023 as well as "The Atomic Bowl" in 2025. Each earned an Emmy Award nomination. His latest film, narrated by Rosanne Cash, "Woody Guthrie and the Ghost of Tom Joad Today" will come to PBS in July 2026. His latest book, published by the New Press in 2020, was the award-winning The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. His previous book, a bestseller, was published by Crown in October 2016 (and in ten editions abroad), was The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill. From 2009 to 2016 he blogged on the media and politics for The Nation, where he closely covered WikiLeaks.…

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1. date of birth: 1947 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 1947 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. publication date: 2020 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 2016 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. publication date: 2011 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. publication date: 2013 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the date of birth is "1947". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the date of birth is "1947". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the publication date is "2020". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the publication date is "2016". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. The record states that the publication date is "2011". What evidence would count against this claim?
7. The record states that the publication date is "2013". What evidence would count against this claim?
8. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
9. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357369660