some of the crew, as he was working for CBS at the time, albeit in another department.) The interview was broadcast on August 21, 1962, and Abel noted: “When Cronkite eventually found out that he’d been conned, and I was the guy behind it, he called me up. I’d never heard him that angry on TV — not about Hitler, Saddam Hussein, or Fidel Castro. He was furious with me.” A 1963 Time article formally exposed the hoax. Abel managed to keep the newsletter going for several more years, hoaxing members who had not seen or heard of that Cronkite episode or read the Time article — or who simply enjoyed the humor of the hoax. The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals hoax was chronicled in Abel's book, The Great American Hoax, published in 1966. Films Abel Raises Cain No More Excuses References Hoaxes in the United States 1950s hoaxes Animals and humans