Memos present media mogul William Randolph Hearsts executives conspired to undermine Welles and stop release of film Previously unpublished documents fill revealed the scale of a plot by the media mogul William Randolph Hearst to discredit Orson Welles and destroy Citizen Kane,the 1941 film approximately the rise and fall of the fictional newspaper proprietor Charles Foster Kane. Welles and RKO Pictures faced extortion, media manipulation and other underhand tactics in a plot that was much darker and began earlier than was previously known, and according to research by Harlan Lebo for a forthcoming book.
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Source: theguardian.com