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CBS Radio Mystery Theater | Old Time Radio brings you atmospheric mystery, suspense, horror, and supernatural drama from one of radio’s great revival-era anthology series.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "It's Murder Mr Lincoln" (Old Time Radio, 1975)

October 8, 2026

E.G. Marshall (0:00)

In 1837, Springfield, Illinois, Franklin Jones faces a murder charge after publicly threatening a local businessman, and young Abraham Lincoln agrees to defend him when no other lawyer will take the case. From CBS Radio Mystery Theater, this is It's Murder Mr Lincoln, episode 241, first heard on March 18th, 1975

Keir Dullea portrays Lincoln in a cast that includes Jennifer Harmon, Paul Hecht, Joe Silver, and Robert Dryden. Sam Dann wrote the drama, and Himan Brown produced and directed. As the case unfolds, Lincoln must look beyond the circumstances that seem to point to Jones. Here is the original broadcast.

SPEAKER_2 (0:48)

And now, Mystery Theater.

E.G. Marshall (1:08)

Come in.

Welcome. I'm EG. Marshall, and we're doing business as usual, featuring our full assortment of the mysterious and the bizarre.

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