Classic Radio 10-04-26 - Sweepstakes Murder, Zero Hour, and The Urge to Kill

Wyatt Cox (0:10)

Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

Wyatt Cox (0:14)

Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counterspy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Yildir Sleeves, 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 (0:38)

Crime and Drama on this Sunday, episodes of Counterspy, Escape, The Whistler. Also yours truly, Johnny Dollar. And the fourth part of The Picture Postcard Matter. And we get back to episodes of Claudia today for the next five days. That's all coming up on this Sunday. This is the fourth day of October, 277th day of the year. We do have 88 days remaining. And I'm changing my glasses so that I can actually see the copy. Because it's good to put on the right pair of glasses. You know.

It was on this date in 1537 The first complete English language Bible printed, the Matthew Bible, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdell in 1895 The first US. Open Men's Golf Championship run by the US. Golf Association played in 1895 on a nine hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.

It was on this date in 1927 The sculpting about Rushmore began by Gutzon Borglum in 1931 The debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip created by cartoonist Chester Gould. It was on this date in 1957 Sputnik 1 launched the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

SPEAKER_5 (2:01)

Radio North Carolina.

SPEAKER_6 (2:03)

As a result of intensive work by research institutes and designing bureaus, the first artificial earth satellite in the world has now been created. This first satellite was today successfully launched in the USSR.

Until two days ago, that sound had never been heard on this earth. Suddenly it has become as much a part of 20th century life as the whirr of your vacuum cleaner. It's a report from man's farthest frontier.

SPEAKER_7 (2:34)

The radio signal transmitted by the Soviet Sputnik, the first man-made satellite as it passed over New York earlier today.

Wyatt Cox (2:41)

The sounds of Radio Moscow and the CBS radio network on this date back in 1987 Satellite stayed in space just three months before falling to earth and burning up. The success of Sputnik 1 sparked the race for space. Leave it to Beaver debuted on this date in 1957 on CBS starring Jerry Matthews, during Mathers, rather, as the Beaver. It was on this date in 1970

Janis Joplin passed away.

SPEAKER_8 (3:11)

Am I on? Okay.

SPEAKER_10 (3:19)

This is Janis. We'd just like to wish you a very happy birthday.

Wyatt Cox (4:13)

Happy birthday, John.

Happy birthday, baby. I recorded the old Dale Evans' Cowboy Tomb Happy Trails for the former Beatle, which was sort of spooky given the lyrics are happy trails to you till we meet again. The tune was titled Happy Birthday John, for John Lennon, of course, and released on the Janice Box set in 1993 Lennon told talk show host Dick Cabot, her taped greeting arrived at his home following her passage. She passed of a heroin overdose on this date in 1970 She was just 27 A Cessna 310Q airplane crashed over Wilmington, North Carolina on this date in 1975, killing the pilot and severely injuring several professional wrestlers associated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion, one of the survivors, the legendary Ric Flair. It was still causing trouble to this day, one way or another.

Oh, it was on this date in 1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butts resigned that after he had been heard making a racial slur against blacks. Listen to this.

Jeff Foxworthy (5:28)

I have submitted my resignation to the president as a member of the cabinet. This is the price I pay for a gross indiscretion in a private conversation.

Wyatt Cox (5:36)

With the presidential election a month away, Butts had to go. The first Hooters Restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida on this date in 1983 And on this date in 1988, Telemangelist Jim Baker was indicted for fraud. He is still around to this day, by the way, after serving his prison term.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to storm the Russian parliament building on this date in 1993, a constitutional crisis in that nation. The second largest cash robbery in US history occurred on this date in 1997 at the Charlotte, North Carolina Office of Loomis Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually resulted in 24 convictions and the recovery of about 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash. John Walker Lynn, the so-called American Taliban, sentenced on this date in 2002 to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia.