Classic Radio 07-21-26 - City Hall Bombing, Lottery Racket, and Alibi

**SPEAKER_2** (0:10)
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Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

**Jack Webb** (0:34)
Good evening, friends of Ian O'Sanchez.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:39)
Crime and science fiction on a Tuesday with episodes of Dragnet, The Big Story, Calling All Cars and the CBS Radio Workshop. And we'll wrap it all up with an episode of Claudia. That's all straight ahead. On this Tuesday, 21st day of July, 202nd day of the year, 163 days remaining, Confederate forces won victory at Bull Run in the first major battle of the Civil War. On this date in 1861, in 1873, the first train robbery west of the Mississippi pulled out by who else? Jesse James and his gang. In the monkey trial on this date in 1925, John T. Scopes found guilty of violating Tennessee state law by teaching evolution. The Senate ratified the Northern Atlantic Treaty in 1949
As astronaut Gus Grissom was taking off on this date in 1961 on the second US human space flight in Mercury IV, the Liberty Bell 7, President Kennedy signed a bill to put NASA on the path to the moon.

**President John F. Kennedy** (1:42)
It is a pleasure to sign today the authorization bill for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This bill has been approved by the Congress in an overwhelming manner and demonstrates united support for a new and vigorous space program submitted to our country by the vice president as chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, sent to the Congress by me as president and given overwhelming support by members of both of our parties who are committed as we all are to seeing to it that the United States occupies an important position in the race into the far reaches of space. It is especially fitting that this bill should be signed on the day that our second astronaut, Captain Virgil Grissom, who I spoke to this morning after he had made his successful flight.
I think it's most important that we should have once again this emphasis on the leadership which our fellow Americans are showing in this field, their courage and also the strong scientific support that they've received from the entire American scientific community. It's significant also that this flight was made before the eyes of the watching world with all the hazards that that entails. As our space program continues on even more ambitious missions, it will continue to be this nation's policy to use space for the advancement of all mankind and to make free release of all scientific and technological results. And therefore it is with great pleasure that we sign it today.

**Wyatt Cox** (3:19)
Now Grissom's flight went well. It was just over a quarter hour. And after splashdown, the hatch cover blew prematurely. Grissom recovered safely. The capsule sank. It wasn't recovered until 1999
In 2002, WorldCom filed for bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy in US history. Four terrorist bombings occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7th bombings, targeted London's transport system. On this date in 2005, all four bombs failed to detonate. All four suspected suicide bombers escaped. NASA's Space Shuttle Program ended on this date in 2011, with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Eric Iruk completed the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world on this date in 2011 And it was on this date 10 years ago today, Donald Trump accepted the GOP's presidential nomination at the party convention in Cleveland.

**Donald Trump** (4:25)
I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:39)
Donald Trump on this date 10 years ago today. And it was on this date in 2024, President Biden announced he would not seek a second term and withdrew from the 2024 election. Passing away on this date in history, poet Robert Burns, actor Basil Rathbone, also television host Dave Garroway, astronaut Alan Shepard, father knows best and Marcus Welby star Robert Young, a British wrestling announcer and quite frankly, not a bad manager and wrestler, Lord Alpert Hayes passing away on this date and singer Tony Bennett, who was born a hundred years ago. He passed away three years ago today.
Birthdays on this date include K-Star.
One of our biggest hits, The Wheel of Fortune, K-Star. Born on this date in history, also born on this date, British journalist and media owner of Reuters, Paul Reuter, also Nobel laureate, Ernest Hemingway, author, Marshall McLuhan, violinist, Isaac Stern, pro wrestler, Bob Orton, the father of Bob Orton Jr. and the grandfather of Randy Orton. Also Attorney General, Janet Reno, Robin Williams, born on this date, taken from his far too young. And also another flying comic actor, taken far too young, Don Knotts.