Classic Radio 08-02-26 - Vienna Mystery, Ester Philips, and No Indians

**SPEAKER_1** (0:10)
Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

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

**SPEAKER_1** (0:28)
Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:34)
Good evening, friends of the Unisanxin.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:39)
Westerns and Crime on a Sunday with episodes of Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy, Confession, Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad, Have Gun Will Travel, starring John Dehner, and an episode of Claudia. That's all straight ahead on this Sunday, 2nd day of August. This is the 214th day of the year, 151 days remaining in 2026, and we say happy birthday to Butch Patrick. You know who Butch is, don't you? Well, if you don't, I'll tell you in a few moments. While Bill Hickok murdered in Deadwood, South Dakota on this date in 1876, the first LinkedIn penny issued on this date in 1909, Warren Harding, the 29th president of the US, died in San Francisco on this date in 1923 The PT-109, a torpedo boat, commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer. Following Kennedy's election in 1960, the story became the basis of a hit song by Jimmy Dean in 1962
The song was Dean's 6th release on the country charts, peaked at number 3 and stayed on the country charts for 13 weeks. It also went to number 8 on the pop charts, and to number 2 on the adult contemporary charts, the PT-109.
The actual events took place on this date in 1943 Two years later, the Potsdam Conference in which allied leaders planned the post-war governance of Germany ended on this date in 1945 The US destroyer Maddox exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin on this date in 1964 which led President Johnson to take action.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:14)
As president and commander in chief, it is my duty to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action and reply.

**Wyatt Cox** (3:42)
As a result, the president ordered retaliatory air strikes by 1965, some 180,000 American troops on the ground with more on the way. People who attended the American Legion Convention in Philadelphia on this date in 1976 began dying of what appeared to be heart attacks.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:02)
Nobody has any idea yet what it really is. All we know is that they all have one thing in common. They were all at the state American Legion Convention in Philadelphia.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:14)
130 hospitalized, 25 died in what would become the first outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. The Persian Gulf War broke out on this date in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:27)
The United States strongly condemns the Iraqi military invasion of Kuwait.
We call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Iraqi forces. There is no place for this sort of naked aggression in today's world. We view this situation with the utmost gravity. We remain committed to take whatever steps are necessary to defend our long-standing vital interests in the Gulf.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:58)
President Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, I should say, in response to an appeal by Washington's Kuwaiti Ambassador Sheikh Saad Nasser al-Sabah on the day of the invasion.

**SPEAKER_7** (5:10)
We have appealed to all our friends around the world, including the United States, to come to our aid.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:20)
Operation Desert Shield began on August 9th. UN forces invaded Kuwait on January 16th. Republicans nominated Texas Governor George W. Bush for president on this date in 2000, and they also nominated Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia. Mattel recalled nearly a million Chinese made toys from its Fisher Price division on this date in 2007 They were found to have excessive amounts of lead.
Apple became the first company to be valued at over $1 trillion back in 2018 And it was on this date in 2022, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, became the highest ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China, which quickly announced that it would conduct military maneuvers in retaliation for her presence.

**SPEAKER_8** (6:19)
We come in friendship to Taiwan.
We come in peace for the region. And our vice chair, our chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee, Mr. Kato, representing our veterans, understanding the value of peace and the avoidance of conflict.

**Wyatt Cox** (6:37)
For those who aren't aware, communists in China ran the nationalists out, and they ended up seeking refuge in Taiwan. Well, Taiwan, China claims that Taiwan is Chinese. And all I can say is it's a mess.