Classic Radio 08-05-26 - The Great Outdoors, Gildy Fired, and Sweet and Sour

**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 Gildersleeve, 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)
Comedy in Western's on a Wednesday with episodes of The Milton Berle Show and The Great Gildersleeve starring Willard Waterman. We're also going to have episodes of Gunsmoke and Fort Laramie and we'll wrap it all up with an episode of Claudia. That's coming up on this Wednesday and you know what that means. This is the fifth day of August, 217th day of the year, 148 days left in 2026 The Mayflower departed South Hampton, England on this date in 1620 on their first attempt to reach North America. The New York Weekly Journal writer Robert Peter Zenger acquitted of seditious libel against the Royal Governor of New York on this date on 1735 on the basis that what he published was true.
The truth, yeah, the truth being a defense, who would have thought it? Yeah, in 1812, the War of 1812, Tecumseh's Indian forces ambushed Thomas Van Horn's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek causing them to flee and retreat. In 1861, during the Civil War, in order to help pay for the war effort, the government issued the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861, 3% of all incomes over $800. It was rescinded in 1872 The Army abolished flogging on this date in 1861 Standard Oil of New Jersey established on this date in 1882 The cornerstone for the new Statue of Liberty laid on this date in 1884 on Bedlow's Island in New York Harbor.
In Cleveland on this date in 1914, the first electric traffic light installed. And it was on this date in 1957, American Bandstand. A show dedicated to the teenage baby boomers by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuted on ABC.
Charles Albertine's Bandstand Boogie, a version by Larry Elgart there, The Most Remembered, though in its closing years, a version sung by Barry Manilow used as the theme. Host Dick Clark remembers a friend asking him to play a record on the air.

**Dick Clark** (3:49)
In the 60s, we brought out a record that a friend of mine had brought back from England with a picture sleeve of three what then appeared to be long-haired young men, and I played it as a favor because he was a former business associate of mine, and he swore to me that this group was going to be extraordinary. I listened privately to the record and I said, you know, I don't know why you're so excited. It's Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers buddy, Holly, with a little weird accent in there. I didn't know it was a Liverpool accent, and now you know the rest of the story. The song was She Loves You, and the kids didn't particularly like it. They said the Beatle record was ordinary. They gave it a 73, as I recall, which is passable.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:29)
And of course, maybe at the time that he played the record, it was ahead of the game. That happens a lot of the time.
Nelson Mandela jailed on this date in 1962 He would not be released until 1990 In 1963, on this date, the US, UK and Soviet Union signed a nuclear test ban treaty that banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in space and underwater. US Ambassador W. Abril Harriman praised the agreement.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:59)
People the world over are happy because it will end testing in the atmosphere by the United States and by the Soviet Union and Britain.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:11)
On this date in 1969, Mariner 7 made its closest flyby of Mars. In 1974, Congress placed a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam. President Reagan fired 11,000-plus striking air traffic controllers on this date in 1981, who ignored his order for them to return to work. In 1984, on this date, the first Olympic Women's Marathon was run at the LA Games.
Joan Benoit of Maine, the happy winner.

**Joan Benoit** (5:45)
It was a real honor for every woman in this race today. It's been a long time coming, and we've certainly proved that we can run this distance very competitively.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:57)
In 2003, a car bomb exploded in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel.

**SPEAKER_7** (6:05)
It's absolute mess. It's completely blackened, twisted shell of the lobby area, particularly of the Marriott.
And it looks like the remains of maybe seven or eight cars outside as well. It seems that's where the blast was focused. And there's a cafeteria area there as well, which seems to have borne the brunt of it as well.