Classic Radio 10-06-26 - Genuine Counterfeit and No Turning Back

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Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

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Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counterspy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger.

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Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

Wyatt Cox (0:34)

Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.

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Drama on a Tuesday with episodes of Counterspy and The Cavalcade of America.

And we will also hear Lum and Abner and Claudia in this two hour podcast. That's all coming up here on this Tuesday. This is the 6th day of October, 279th day of the year, 86 days remaining in 2026 William Penn brought 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania on this date in 1683, marking the first German people to immigrate to America. The Naval War College of the US. Navy founded on this date in 1884 in Newport, Rhode Island.

On this date in 1889, Thomas Edison showed his first motion picture. And it was on this date in 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie, premiered.

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Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet. Wait a minute, I tell you, you ain't heard nothing.

SPEAKER_6 (1:38)

You want to hear 2-2-2-3?

SPEAKER_7 (1:40)

All right, hold on, hold on.

Don Maclaughlin (1:42)

Lum, listen, play 2-2-2-3, 3 chorus, you understand? And the third chorus, I whistle. Now give it to them hard and heavy.

Wyatt Cox (2:29)

Al Jolson in the first prominent talking movie, the jazz singer that opened on this date in 1924 and is now in the public domain. In the speech to the Reichstag on this date in 1939, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke his plan to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe, as he called it, the Jewish problem.

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They are the only ones in the world.

Wyatt Cox (2:55)

Adolf Hitler on this date back in 1939 In 1949, US-born journalist Aiba Toguri de Aquino sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason as her role as a Japanese wartime broadcaster, Tokyo Rose.

She would be released 6 years later and eventually pardoned because a lot of the information that linked her directly to being Tokyo Rose was forged and was not accurate. So sadly, here's a case of somebody else being convicted because of who she was, not of what she did. The historic drama Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas, directed by Stanley Kubrick, premiered on this date in 1960 in New York City.

Spartacus premiering on this date back in 1960 LSD declared illegal in the US. 50 years ago, 60 years ago today, rather, in 1966 On Yom Kippur, the high On the highest... holy day of the year for the Jewish people, Arab armies invaded Israel on this date in 1963 With American help, Israel eventually held its ground, but the Arabs would retaliate against the US., something Interior Secretary Rogers Morton predicted on the first day of the war.

Mandel Kramer (4:31)

If we're cut off from Middle Eastern oil, it means that probably during the years of 74, 75 and 76, we will have to manage a considerable shortage.

Wyatt Cox (4:42)

80,000 Egyptian troops crossed the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line, and began the Yom Kippur War.

There are many people who believe on this date in 1976, Gerald Ford would have been elected to a full term as president, if not for two things. One was pardoning Richard Nixon, the other was making this statement during a broadcast debate with Jimmy Carter.

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There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.

Wyatt Cox (5:18)

Yeah, that statement hasn't aged very well at all. Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House on this date in 1979, but before he went to see President Carter, he thrilled a number of average Americans.

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John Paul II, he wants you.

Wyatt Cox (5:43)

Pope John Paul II on this date in 1979 It was on this date in 1981, President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat, assassinated.

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Everyone was watching the parade, it was going along beautifully. President Sadat seemed in an upbeat mood. When suddenly shots were fired by what appeared to me to be young soldiers from an anti-tank unit that was mobile and was passing his reviewing stand.

It took a few seconds for those of us around the area to realize that this was not part of the display, it was for real. And the shots were being aimed directly at President Sadat, Vice President Mubarak next to him, and Defense Minister Abu Ghazala on the other side.