Joan Hooley about the story behind Emergency – Ward 10 interracial kiss on television (Video)
“The television people pretended it never happened. They never spoke to me about it. They never mentioned it. And then they wrote me out of the program. They sent me [the character] back to Africa. Where I was bitten by a snake band died! Can you believe it? Not one of the directors, the producers, the head of the station. No one called me in and had a conversation with me about it. I don’t think it started any changes at all. Because you think about it: when did you see a next black and white television kiss?”
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