Classic Radio 10-12-26 - The Hermit Thrush, The Cover Girl Murder, and The Dragon Tongue Murders

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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 Yildir Slave, 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.

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Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.

Wyatt Cox (0:39)

Crime on a Monday episodes of Nick Carter Master Detective, Philo Vance, The Shadow and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and Claudia. That's all coming up straight ahead on this Monday. This is the 12th day of October. This is the 285th day of the year, and we have 80 days left in 2026 Christopher Columbus expedition made landfall in the Caribbean on this date in 1492 The explorer believed he had reached East Asia. Three Blind Mice published by London teenager Thomas Ravenscroft was published on this date in 1609

A London woman publicly flogged for the crime of involving herself in politics. On this date in 1681, in 1773, America's first insane asylum opened for persons of insane and disordered minds in Virginia. The Navy formed on this date in 1775 In 1792, the first celebration of Columbus Day in the US held in New York City. Brazil declared its independence from Portugal on this date in 1822

Peter I of Brazil proclaimed the Emperor of the Brazilian Empire. The Pledge of Allegiance first recited in unison by students in public schools on this date in 1892

President Teddy Roosevelt officially renamed the Executive Mansion to the White House on this date in 1901 An iron lung respirator used for the first time on this date in 1928 at Children's Hospital in Boston. Filming began on The Wizard of Oz on this date in 1938 and on this date in 1950, premiering on CBS television, George Burns and Gracie Allen.

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Appearing on tonight's show where Rex Evans is William Gregory, Joseph Kearns is Mr. Blackwell, and Leon Tyler as the delivery boy. The Burns and Allen Show is a film presentation.

Wyatt Cox (2:55)

The show would run for eight seasons going off the air in 1958, at which time Gracie Allen hung it up. She retired. Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe on a desk at UN General Assembly meeting on this date in 1960 to protest the Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonialist policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.

It was on this date in 1970, President Nixon announced the US would withdraw 40,000 more troops, before Christmas. Two days after Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned, President Nixon introduced Gerald Ford as his nominee for Vice President on this date in 1973

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The man whose name I will submit to the Congress of the United States for confirmation as the Vice President of the United States, Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan.

Wyatt Cox (3:54)

Ford spoke immediately afterwards.

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I'm deeply honored and I'm extremely grateful and I'm terribly humble.

Wyatt Cox (4:05)

Ten months later, President Nixon would resign and Gerald Ford, appointed to be Vice President, would become the next President of the United States. The Late Show with Joan Rivers premiered on Fox on this date in 1986

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Do you find them good looking in the Royal Family?

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Because my husband is English, he thinks they're good looking.

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Can we talk here?

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A bunch of dogs. A bunch of dogs!

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Go out in the street, call their names, Queenie, Duke and Prince, and see what shows up.

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Oh, sure!

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The show didn't last a year, ending in May of 1987 Rivers would find more success in daytime talk than she did at night. Interestingly enough, it created a rip between Rivers and Johnny Carson that lasted until their passings.

Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on this date in 1998 And in 2000, 26 years ago today, the USS Cole badly damaged in Aden, Yemen by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39

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I hope they suffered in whatever they burned and they fell into the water, but they probably incinerators because they're so close.

Wyatt Cox (5:21)

Crew member Ray Mooney saw the attackers who waved at him just before the explosion. President Clinton vowed justice would be done.

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We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable.

Wyatt Cox (5:34)

Prompted by a request from President George W. Bush on this date in 2001, an episode of America's Most Wanted featured 22 most wanted terrorists.

Speaking of terrorists, a year later, terrorists detonated bombs in two nightclubs in Bali. Richard Poor was a survivor.

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And it was just a procession of people covered in blood, covered in glass, glass shards embedded into people, people's backs had obviously been on fire. It was just horrible.