In 1938, she married Marvin Mundel, and the following year received a Ph.D. in art history and psychology from the University of Iowa.
[4] In the documentary, the narrator said that in 1951 Mundel "was not a political activist, but had tastes, convictions about art, about religion, unfamiliar to these streets.
She then sued for slander, but in the trial that followed in Fairmont's courtroom, it was Luella Mundel and her right to speak freely, to be different, that wound up being tried."
Mundel later became head of the art department at Mayville State University in North Dakota, where she remained until her retirement in 1975.
[2][6] Victor Lasky, a conservative journalist who rose to prominence during the McCarthy era, sued ABC over his depiction in the documentary.