Classic Radio 10-20-26 - Stamped for Murder, Abandoned Bricks, and The Coffin

Wyatt Cox (0:10)

Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

SPEAKER_2 (0:14)

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.

Wyatt Cox (0:28)

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

SPEAKER_3 (0:34)

Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.

Wyatt Cox (0:38)

Crime on a Tuesday, Sydney Greenstreet, and The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, an episode of Calling All Cars going back 88 years, and Casey Crime Photographer, Staats Cotsworth, and The Story of the Coffin. And we'll wrap it all up with episodes of Lum and Abner and Claudia. That's coming up on this Tuesday. This is the 20th day of October, 293rd day of the year, 172 days remaining.

The Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase on this date in 1803 The Convention of 1818 signed between the US and the UK, which among other things, settled the US-Canadian border on the 49th Parallel for much of its length.

SPEAKER_3 (1:27)

Mr. President, Your Excellency, my dear friends, I have returned.

Wyatt Cox (1:40)

General Douglas MacArthur on this date in 1944, fulfilling his promise to return to the Philippines when he commanded an allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.

On this date in 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee began its investigation into communist infiltration of Hollywood. Chairman Jay Parnell Thomas delivered opening remarks.

SPEAKER_5 (2:07)

The fact that the Committee on Un-American Activities is investigating alleged communist influence and infiltration in the moving picture industry must not be considered or interpreted as an attack on the industry itself.

Wyatt Cox (2:21)

The investigations resulted in a blacklist that prevented some from working in the industry for years.

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis on this date in 1968 The Saturday Night Massacre in 1973, President Nixon fired Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refused to fire Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox who was finally fired by Robert Bork.

SPEAKER_6 (2:56)

Although I strongly believe in the general purposes and priorities of his administration, I have been compelled to conclude that I could better serve my country by resigning my public office.

Wyatt Cox (3:10)

Richardson on his resignation. The six million dollar man portrayed by Lee Majors premiered on ABC on the state in 1973 In 1976, 78 people killed when the Norwegian tanker Frosta rammed the commuter ferry George Prince on the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Charles Chatelaine was then board the ferry in his truck when the vehicle was struck.

As I was coming up, I felt the hand come in my hand, but I couldn't feel a body attached to it. He was trapped in his vehicle until the river's water pressure shattered the windows.

A plane carrying Leonard Skinnerd crashed in Mississippi on this date in 1977, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zandt and guitarist Steve Gaines. It was on this date in 1991, the Oakland Hills Firestorm killed 25 and destroyed almost 3,500 homes and apartments caused more than $2 billion in damage, almost $5 billion in 2026

SPEAKER_7 (4:19)

There are driveways that lead to nowhere. I mean, quite literally, the driveway goes off 8, 10, 12 feet off of the side of the street and then drops off.

Wyatt Cox (4:30)

Reporter Jim Taylor driving through the devastation. Egyptian-born Ali Mohammed, a US citizen who had served in the army, pled guilty in New York on this date in 2000 to helping plan the US. Embassy bombings in Africa in 1998

224 people were killed. Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's dictator for 42 years, killed on this date in 2011 as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Surete and captured the last bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell. Photojournalist Holly Pickett traveling with the ambulance crew and she witnessed the scene.

SPEAKER_8 (5:13)

He was bare-chested. There was some blood on his pants, but I could tell that he looked dead.

Wyatt Cox (5:20)

Gaddafi, 69

Liz Trust stepped down as British prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party of Britain on this date in 2022, amid the country's political crisis serving for the least time of any British prime minister, just 49 days. Passing away on this date in history, the 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, actor Joel McCrae from Tales of the Texas Rangers, actor Burt Lancaster, actor Jack Elam, singer Shirley Horn and TV's Margaret on Father Knows Best on television, Jane Wyatt. Birthdays on this date include Bella Lugosi.

SPEAKER_3 (6:13)

I am Dracula.

SPEAKER_9 (6:16)

I bid you welcome.

SPEAKER_11 (6:25)

Listen to them. Children of the night.