Did Jack Barry Know About The Rigging?

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First off, the Emily Dickinson moment in the film is pure fiction among many things in this film that are fiction (not the least of which was Redford turning a man who had next to NOTHING to do with the investigation, Richard Goodwin, into the hero for reasons that I am convinced are rooted entirely in politics). Barry didn't react to anything in the broadcast. But that said, he did admit his general knowledge of the rigging (though not all the minute details) in an interview on the Tomorrow program in the 1970s and again in an interview for the late 80s documentary "Television" (his interview was filmed before his death in 1984, four years before the documentary aired).

Well that actually was the case on other game shows of the 50s that were rigged. The first game show that was exposed for rigging was a daytime game show called "Dotto" and its host, Jack Narz, was not involved with the fixing that was going on. But unlike Jack Barry, who was the co-producer of the whole production team, Narz was just a hired gun and thus there was no reason for him to be involved in behind-the-scenes rigging. He emerged unscathed from the scandal and continued to host game shows into the late 70s (he was also the brother of another game show host legend, Tom Kennedy).