Lila Garrett (November 21, 1925 – February 1, 2020) was an American television screenwriter and radio host who wrote for the

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s '' The Second Hundred Years'' (co-wrote episodes 10 and 13 with

Bernie Kahn Bernard M. Kahn (April 26, 1930 – April 21, 2021) was an American screenwriter. Education He received bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from the University of Michigan. At the 1953 Maccabiah Games in Israel, in swimming ...

), ''

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'', ''

All in the Family ''All in the Family'' is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. Afterwards, it was continued with the spin-off series '' Archie Bunker's Place'', which picked up where ''All in ...

'', and ''

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''. She co-wrote with Bernie Kahn and Stu Billett the 1971

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TV movie ''

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''. An anti-war activist, Garrett's political engagement includes founding Americans Against War with Iraq, serving as a DNC delegate for presidential candidate

Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history a ...

, presiding as President over the Southern California chapter of the

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and becoming a founding member of

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. She hosted

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's ''Connect the Dots'' on

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, interviewing left-leaning luminaries and often closing her show with "The arms industry has neither allies nor enemies, only customers." Garrett was also a frequent contributor to the online magazine ''LA Progressive''. She had lived in the

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Awards

* Shared

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for ''The ABC Afternoon Playbreak'' episode ''Mother of The Bride'' * Shared

for ''

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'' episode ''The Girl Who Couldn't Lose'' * 1984, shared

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for '' The Other Woman''

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