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Correction: Al Feldstein Obituary

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

Last month in an obituary, we failed to credit a couple of audio sources, and we want to set the record straight. In our remembrance of former "Mad Magazine" editor Al Feldstein, we used this film clip.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FELDSTEIN")

AL JAFFEE: Al Feldstein was a very, very good editor. He didn't fool around. If he liked something, that was it.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

That is cartoonist Al Jaffee remembering his former editor. We failed to tell you that it's from the documentary "Feldstein." And that documentary was produced by Olumide Productions LLC.

BLOCK: In the same obituary, we also played audio from the documentary "Diagram For Delinquents: Fredric Wertham And The Evolution Of Comic Books." It's written and directed by Robert Emmons Jr.

SIEGEL: In the clip, we hear Feldstein talking about his testimony before a congressional committee that was investigating comic books in the early 1950s.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DIAGRAM FOR DELINQUENTS: FREDRIC WERTHAM AND THE EVOLUTION OF COMIC BOOKS")

AL FELDSTEIN: I was called before the committee in a private session. My statements were, I do this for a living, if parents don't want their kids to read the horror comics that I edit and write, they should tell their kids they can't read those books.

SIEGEL: We regret those omissions. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.
As special correspondent and guest host of NPR's news programs, Melissa Block brings her signature combination of warmth and incisive reporting. Her work over the decades has earned her journalism's highest honors, and has made her one of NPR's most familiar and beloved voices.

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