Jay McMullen, 90, has died at a hospice in Greenwich. As an investigative journalist for CBS News he was among the first to use hidden cameras and undercover reporting. From his New York Times obituary:
Mr. McMullen posed as a prospective drug trafficker in Mexico, lived in a Chicago tenement to shine a light on African-American poverty and, perhaps most famously, recorded uniformed Boston police officers entering and leaving a betting parlor, disguised as a key store, in 1961. Mr. McMullen shot footage for the report inside the parlor using an 8-millimeter camera concealed in a lunchbox.
