Biography of a Bookie Joint airs on network television.

November 30, 1961

A CBS documentary, it shows Boston police frequenting the bookmaking operation being run out of the Swartz Key Shop at 364 Massachusetts Avenue until it was shut down by federal authorities two months earlier. The program is broadcast on network television, but blacked out in Boston due to a pending criminal investigation. A subsequent, updated version of the program finally does air in Boston on March 20, 1963.