Best of Classic Radio 09-09-26 - Buffalo Hunters, You Only Die Once, and The Human Comedy

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

On this Wednesday, we're going to have another Best of Classic Radio Theater today. Raymond Burr starring in Fort Laramie. And this, by the way, these today's shows originally were broadcast nationally Friday, September 9th, 2022

Raymond Burr, Fort Laramie, Buffalo Hunters, The Sealed Book, and You Only Die Once. We'll also have an episode of Claudia, Screen Director's Playhouse production of The Human Comedy, starring Mickey Rooney. And we'll have an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly from their Quarter Hour era. This goes back to 1954

Thank you so much for joining us for this Best Of. I am hopefully enjoying some time away. We'll be back soon with Original Broadcast.

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Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

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Suspense. The Shadow Node.

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Washington calling David Harding.

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Counter-Spy. Classic Radio Theater.

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The Great Gildersleeve.

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Fibber McGee and Molly.

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Dragnet.

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Gunsmoke.

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The Lone Ranger.

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Now, step back into a time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

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Good evening, friends of the NSXM.

Wyatt Cox (1:27)

We head to Wyoming for Western Adventure from Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince, from 66 years ago, September 9, 1956, Buffalo Hunters. And we thank you for tuning in on this TGI Friday, 9th day of September, 252nd day of the year, 113 days remaining. Continental Congress officially named their new Union of Sovereign States the United States back in 1776 The capital of the US., named for President George Washington, Washington, DC., in 1791 The first glass plate photograph taken by John Herschel on this date in 1839 Happy birthday, California. It was admitted as the 31st state in 1850 And in 1850, the compromise of 1850 stripped Texas of a third of its claimed territory. It's now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, in return for the government assuming 10 million dollars of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

It was on this date in 1926 the National Broadcasting Company was formed. The second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, Japan formally surrendered to China. And in 1947, the first actual case of a computer bug being found.

It was a moth in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. Back in 1947, it was all still electromechanical.

1956, Elvis Presley appeared on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time. It was not his first national appearance. His first appearance was on January 28th of 1956 on the Little Remembered Stage Show, hosted by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. And his first national TV appearance was on April of 1956 on the Milton Burrell Show. So Elvis's appearance on this, dated 1956 on Ed Sullivan, was his first appearance there, but not nationally. The Department of Housing and Urban Development established on this date in 1965 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by President Johnson in 1966

My Fair Lady on this date in 1970 surpassed as the longest running Broadway musical in history by Dolly Levi. Hello Dolly ran for over 2844 performances as its initial run. Today, that's only 20th on the longest running shows on Broadway, Phantom of the Opera, currently holding that crown. 1971, the four-day Attica Prison Riots began, which eventually resulted in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

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The prisoners have taken over four cell blocks. There's a couple of buildings on fire.

That's the chapel and the laundry shop arrangement. There's been 25, 30 hostages at guards, prison personnel that are hostages of the prisoners. Let's see, there's been six or seven guards injured, and they're in the hospital here in Batavia. I don't know their condition or what injuries they've suffered.

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Now, inmates and families of inmates killed in the prison retaking sued the state of New York for civil rights violations by law enforcement officers during and after the retaking of Attica. After eight years in the courts, in 2000, the state of New York agreed to pay eight million dollars, that's 12 million minus legal fees, to settle the case. State of New York also recognized the families of the slain prison employees in 2005 with a 12 million dollar financial settlement.

It was on this date in 2003 that Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay 85 million dollars to 552 people to settle cleric sex abuse cases. Passing away on this date in history, actor John MacGyver, singer Helen O'Connell, Burgess Meredith, you remember him from Rocky, and if you're old like me, you remember him as the Penguin in the 1960s, Batman and actress Ruth Roman. This is the birthdate of the 1936 GOP presidential candidate and broadcaster, Alf Landon. He was also a governor of the state of Kansas. Sportscaster Clem McCarthy, Colonel Harlan Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Jimmy the Greek Snyder, Cliff Robertson, Otis Redding, and country singer, Joey Feek, all born on this date in history.