Classic Radio 10-14-26 - Still Waters, Gunshot Wound, and Play for Keeps

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Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

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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.

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

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Good evening, friends of the NS Anger.

Wyatt Cox (0:39)

Westerns on this Wednesday with episodes of Fort Laramie and Gunsmoke, Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrea and Lum and Abner. Wrap it all up with another episode of Claudia. That's all straight ahead on this Wednesday. This is the 14th day of October, 287th day of the year, 78 days left in 2026 UK's East India Company T-ships cargo burned at Annapolis, Maryland on this date in 1773, in the American Revolutionary War. George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving Day on this date in 1789 George Eastman on this date in 1884 patented paper-stripped photographic film. English aviator Claude Graham White landed his farm and buy plane on Executive Avenue near the White House in 1910 That's now Pennsylvania Avenue. While campaigning in Milwaukee on this date in 1912, former president Teddy Roosevelt shot by saloon keeper John Shrank with a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him. The former president still delivered his scheduled speech.

In 1916, sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.

The children's book Winnie the Pooh by AA. Milne first published on this date in 1926 And in 1933, Nazi Germany withdrew from the League of Nations. In 1947, on this date, Chuck Yeager fly a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

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Took the roster of all of our test pilots. We had 125 at the time, I believe, and went over this roster in great detail and selected about 25 pilots that we considered qualified for the flight. We then called in each of these pilots and interviewed them, of course, having quite a bit of personal knowledge of their attitude and ability. And we'd hoped to find a pilot that didn't have a family, one who wasn't married, probably. After interviewing all of the pilots, we always came back to Yeager. He had demonstrated his ability on numerous occasions in our presence, and the various flight demonstrations in the field, and also in test work.

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Air Force Colonel Alan Boyd on the selection of Yeager to make that flight. 11 leaders of the US. Communist Party convicted on this date in 1949, after a nine-month trial of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the US government. A U-2 flight over Cuba took photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed on this date in 1962, the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1964, Leonid Brezhnev became Secretary General of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union ousting Nikita Khrushchev.

Was on this date in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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I do not consider this merely an honor to me personally, but a tribute to the discipline, wise restraint and majestic courage of the millions of gallant Negroes and white persons of goodwill who have followed a non-violent course in seeking to establish a reign of justice and the rule of love across this nation of ours.

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Dr. King on this date in 1964

In 1968, the first live telecast from a manned US spacecraft, Apollo 7, citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charged the US government with holding Richard Marshall or of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner on this date in 1981 In 1987, the 58-hour ordeal of Jessica McClure began when the 18-month-old girl fell down a backyard well in Midland, Texas. Kyle Large of the Midland Fire Department said Jessica was conscious as crews tried to reach her.

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I heard her say mommy mommy several times. They've got a microphone lowered down to her and there are hearing sounds coming from her.

Wyatt Cox (5:11)

And McClure was retrieved safely.

In 1994, the Nobel Peace Prize went to three men most responsible for a breakthrough Middle East peace agreement. Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel, along with PLO leader Yasser Arafat, shared the prize. Many people who believe Arafat's a terrorist protested his inclusion. But PLO delegate Nabil Shahzad said the recognition was proper.

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We are not a terrorist organization.

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We are a liberation movement.

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And we do not seek international discord.

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We seek peace.