Lou Gordon

 

“Tell it like it really is.”

Lou Gordon

Detroit’s Mike Wallace

 
 

Original documentary series Motor City Celebrities: Lou Gordon, Dream World Enterprises, Inc.

“The man who fate and circumstance cast into the role of the people’s advocate….Detroit has never before or since encountered a flamboyant character like Lou Gordon who became a kingmaker by championing the causes of the little guy.”

 
 
 
 

Deborah Gordon is the daughter of the late Lou Gordon, veteran journalist, of WKBD’s "The Lou Gordon Program". Lou Gordon’s work spanned broadcast, radio and print journalism. He was a beloved crusader in the Detroit area and true voice for the voiceless.

"He was Detroit’s Mike Wallace, a broadcast cop who cowered before no one. The bigger the interview, the tougher he got. Most interviewers bowed and scraped before Bob Hope, but Gordon asked him about his defense of President Richard Nixon during the Vietnam era. Gordon questioned George Wallace’s sanity - to his face. Gordon was, by far, the most feared man in television, maybe in the history of the local medium."

From Soupy to Nuts! A History of Detroit Television, by Tim Kiska, Momentum Books LLC, 2005.