Classic Radio 10-18-26 - Death of a Doll, Crisis of Dirk Diamond, and Death Comes at Midnight

SPEAKER_1 (0:10)

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 Yildir Slave, Fibber McGee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger.

SPEAKER_1 (0:29)

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

SPEAKER_3 (0:34)

Good evening, friends of Inner Sanctum.

Wyatt Cox (0:39)

Crime on a Sunday with episodes of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Suspense, The Whistler, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Claudia. That's all straight ahead on this Sunday, 18th day of October. This is the 291st day of the year, 74 days remaining in 2020

Herman Melville's Moby Dick first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London on this date in 1851 In 1867, the US took possession of Alaska from Russia, celebrated annually in the state, as Alaska Day. The US back in 1867 paid $7.2 million. That would be over $157.6 million today.

And a bargain at that price considering all the natural resources the state has. The US took possession of Puerto Rico on this date in 1898 British Broadcasting Company founded on this date in 1922 by a consortium to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. It's now not the British Broadcasting Company, but the British Broadcasting Corporation. The Grand Ole Opry opened on this date in 1925 Thomas Edison passed away on this date in 1931

SPEAKER_5 (2:04)

What do you think of the sound pictures of today?

SPEAKER_6 (2:06)

What do I think of the talking pictures?

SPEAKER_7 (2:10)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_6 (2:12)

Well, I don't know. I never heard of them.

SPEAKER_8 (2:18)

What do you think of the Einstein Theory?

SPEAKER_6 (2:21)

I don't think anything of Einstein Theory because I can't understand it.

How does it feel to be 84 years old? Well, it feels very fine to be 84 years of age. If you don't have anything to matter with you. Well, I have a little trouble now and then, but that's because I'm getting old. But I've got a lot of ginger yet.

Wyatt Cox (2:47)

Edison died not long after that recording was made. Complication of diabetes listed as the cause of death. He was 84 years of age. Adolf Hitler ordered the establishment of a German national militia on this date in 1944 The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia on this date in 1944

Texas Instruments announced the first transistor radio. On this date in 1954

Dr. James D. Watson of the US and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on this date in 1962 for determined their work, rather, in determining the double helix molecular structure of DNA.

Years later, Watson explained why they were able to make the breakthrough.

SPEAKER_9 (3:37)

We worked on something before its time had come. Francis and I were the only people trying to do the three-dimensional structure of DNA.

Wyatt Cox (3:47)

The three scientists winning the Nobel Prize on this date in 1962 for discovering what really happens with DNA.

A police raid on John Lennon Iyoko Ono's flat on this date in 1968 found 168 grams of marijuana. They later pled guilty they were fined 150 pounds. The artificial sweetener Cyclamate banned in the US on this date in 1969

SPEAKER_3 (4:18)

I'm today ordering at the artificial sweetener Cyclamate be removed from the list of substances which are generally recognized as safe for use in foods.

Recent experiments conducted on laboratory animals disclosed the presence of malignant bladder tumors. After these animals have been subjected to strong dose levels of Cyclamates for long periods, the findings in these experiments were on the basis for my action.

Wyatt Cox (4:44)

The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Herbert L. Lay Jr. who would be ousted from his position before the end of 1969 Those findings got an argument from Dr. Michael Stata, the man who had developed Cyclamates.

SPEAKER_10 (5:02)

Of course, I'm the guy who had been eating it for 22 years. No, 32 years. I mean, after all, I'm alive 32 years later.

SPEAKER_5 (5:10)

As far as I know, I don't have any cancer.

Wyatt Cox (5:12)

Now, other artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame NutraSweet and Sucralose Splenda, and the ever popular high fructose corn syrup are allowed today, with some ill effects more in fact, than the mostly discredited study that manned Cyclamates. With all the controversy, they're better off using real sugar or the plant extract Stevia. Ironically, the US is pretty much alone in the ban, as Cyclamate is approved in at least 130 other countries, including the UK.

I believe it's also banned in Japan and India. A hundred other countries are still using it.