Classic Radio 07-22-26 - Autumn Song, Running for Council, and Return Trip

**Wyatt Cox** (0:10)
Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:14)
Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counter-Spy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:29)
Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:34)
Good evening, friends of the NSXN.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:39)
Crimes and Westerns on this Wednesday with episodes of The Whistler, Rogers of the Gazette, The FBI in Peace and War, Fort Laramie and Claudia. That's all coming up on this Wednesday, 22nd day of July, 203rd day of the year, 162 days left in 2026 Albany, New York was formerly chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Donagon in 1686 Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company named an area in Ohio, Cleveland, after General Moses Cleveland, the superintendent of the Surveying Party in 1796 Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world on this date in 1933, traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours, and 45 minutes. Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on this date in 1934, public enemy number one John Dillinger, mortally wounded by FBI agents. The Senate voted down President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court on this date in 1937 The government began on this date in 1942 compulsory civilian gas rationing due to wartime demands. The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto also began on this date in 1942 On this date in 1963, the BBC broadcast the first hit single from those lads from Liverpool.
It would be yet another year before that song topping out at number 17 in the UK would smash atop the US charts the Beatles Love Me Do first airing on radio on this date in 1963 in the UK.
Milwaukee police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer on this date in 1991 after human body parts were found in his apartment. Following day, Police Chief Philip Arreola gave the early word of the magnitude of Dahmer's crimes.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:49)
It is a number of homicides, multiple.

**Wyatt Cox** (3:52)
Multiple homicides. Dahmer eventually found to have killed at least 17 people. He was murdered in prison in 1994 Near Medellin, Colombia on this date in 1992, drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the US.
Susan Smith, who had drowned her two sons by rolling her car into a lake with the boys strapped in, convicted on this date in 1995 of first degree murder in Union, South Carolina. This woman said, it was the right verdict.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:27)
I think she got just what she deserved. She didn't give those kids a chance and she don't deserve one either.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:32)
On this date in 1995, OJ. Simpson entered a plea of 100% not guilty for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:41)
How do you plead to couch one and two?

**SPEAKER_5** (4:44)
Absolutely 100% not guilty.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:47)
And he would be found not guilty. However, later he would be held civilly reliable in these murders.
In 2003, members of the 101st Airborne of the US., aided by Special Forces, attacked a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's son, Uday N. Qusay, along with Mustafa Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard. Britain got a new heir to the throne on this date in 2013, as Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to Prince George. Londoners were thrilled.

**SPEAKER_8** (5:25)
Congratulations!

**Wyatt Cox** (5:27)
Oi, oi, oi!

**SPEAKER_9** (5:29)
Congratulations to Kate!

**Wyatt Cox** (5:32)
Prince George, born on this date in 2013
Passing away on this date in history. Blo Ziegfeld, the theatrical producer. Inventor and radio pioneer Reginald Fesson. Also bank robber John Dillinger. Poet Carl Sandberg. Ben in the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead, Dwayne Jones. The man who was for many generations the Marlboro Man, Wayne McLaren passing on this date. Sophia of the Golden Girls, Estelle Getty. The Four Tops Duke Faker was passing away on this date rather. Ozzy Osborne and Chuck Mangione both passing away a year ago today.
Birthdays of those who are no longer with us include former presidential candidate Bob Dole.

**SPEAKER_10** (6:24)
Well, I can talk but I can't hear, can't walk too well, but otherwise I'm in great shape. Can't see either, but so I haven't heard a thing that anybody said. So if I repeat something, why let me know. I thought this would be a good place to announce my candidacy for president.
Some people thought I should wait till I got a little older, but anyway, I still want to recount, but that probably won't happen.

**Wyatt Cox** (6:57)
Bob Dole, well, I mean in addition to his war wounds, Bob Dole was a personality deficit, but he was a decent guy. Bob Dole passing away back in 21 at the age of 98 Also born on this date in history, the man who had a whole strain of humor named after him, English priest and scholar William Archibald Spooner. Spoonerism such as it's kiss to marry to cuss the bride.