Classic Radio 07-27-26 - Nursemaid, General Ketchum, and Star Performance

**Wyatt Cox** (0:10)
Now, the greatest radio shows of all time. Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counter-Spy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Yildir Slave, Fibber McGee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger. Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:34)
Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:39)
Crime and Fantasy on this Monday with episodes of Crime and Peter Chambers starring Dane Clark, Crime Classics and The Final Day of General Ketchum and How He Died, and The FBI in Peace and War, Star Performance, and an episode of the CBS Radio Workshop, The Story of Starboy. And we'll wrap it all up with an episode of Claudia. That's coming up on this Monday, 27th day of July, 208th day of the year, 157 days remaining in 2026
Union General George V. McClellan put in command of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War on this date in 1861 Bugs Bunny made his debut on this date in 1940 in the cartoon A Wild Hare.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:24)
Guess who?

**Dane Clark** (1:25)
Uh, Eddie Wimoa?

**SPEAKER_6** (1:26)
Nope.

**Wyatt Cox** (1:28)
Well, Coward Wombard?

**SPEAKER_7** (1:32)
Who's Milly Wayne?

**SPEAKER_8** (1:33)
Nope.

**Dane Clark** (1:35)
Uh, Olivia Davaunt?

**SPEAKER_8** (1:37)
Nope, but you're getting warmer.

**SPEAKER_9** (1:40)
Say, you wouldn't be that screwy wabbit, would you?

**Wyatt Cox** (1:47)
Now, in re-releases of the cartoon, the references to Carole Lombard removed, Barbara Stanwyck edited in, out of deference to Lombard, who died two years after this cartoon was produced. Also on this date in 1940, Billboard magazine published its first singles chart for the week of July 20th. The number one song belonged to... Tommy Dorsey's Band.
The Dorsey Band with the number one song on this date in 1940, with the vocals by the Pied Pipers and a Young Boys Singer. You might have heard of him, his name was Sinatra. An armistice signed on this date in 1953, ending the Korean War.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:07)
They both walked into their respective tables, each accompanied by two A's. They sat down We didn't. even glance at each other and immediately set towards finding the documents.

**Wyatt Cox** (3:18)
CBS News correspondent live from Palm Moon Jam on this date in 1953 Then Vice President Richard Nixon nominated on this date in 1960 to challenge John Fitzgerald Kennedy for the presidency of the United States.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:34)
May I present in nomination a fighter for freedom, a pilgrim for peace, the Vice President of the United States, the Honorable Richard M. Nixon.

**Wyatt Cox** (3:54)
Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield on this date, 14 years later, the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.

**SPEAKER_10** (4:08)
There is a contradiction when the executive branch is both investigatory and the subject of investigation. And there is a contradiction when efforts to determine whether the office of the president is being faithfully executed are met with the claim that the fateful execution of the office precludes disclosures of the relevant facts. It is these events and these contradictions that forced the House by a vote of 410 to 4 to set in motion this impeachment inquiry.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:41)
New Jersey Democrat Congressman Peter Odino. Twelve days later, President Nixon would resign and Gerald R. Ford would become the first unelected president of the United States. On this date in 1995, the Korean War Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington by President Clinton.

**SPEAKER_11** (5:00)
They set a standard of courage that may be equal but will never be surpassed in the annals of American combat.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:13)
The dedication took place on the 42nd anniversary of the armistice that brought the conflict to an end.
Terror struck the Atlanta Olympics on this date in 1996 when a homemade pipe bomb went off in a park where thousands watched a rock concert. One person killed, more than 100 injured. This man was there when the explosion went off.

**SPEAKER_12** (5:35)
I was sitting on the wall looking out at the music and the crowd and all of a sudden it's kaboom and it just blew me off the wall. I turned back and there were a couple of people laying there. I got the hell out of there.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:47)
Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pled guilty to the bombing, exonerating security guard Richard Jewell, who had been wrongly suspected. It was on this date in 2003
Bob Hope died in his home at the age of 100

**SPEAKER_13** (6:03)
Thanks for the memory of sentimental verse. Nothing in my purse and chuckles when the preacher said, for better or for worse, how lovely it was.

**Wyatt Cox** (6:22)
From the motion picture, the big broadcast of 1938, Bob Hope and Shirley Ross played a divorced couple who sang the song in the movie. And that was Ross along with Hope. The song would be associated with Bob Hope for the rest of his life and beyond. After an incident during a space shuttle mission on this date in 2005, NASA grounded the space shuttle pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. Board of the Boy Scouts of America voted on this date in 2015 to allow openly gay leaders into the organization.