This Tuesday overnight, April 01 into 02 from 1 to 3 am in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, more from LIGHTS OUT by Arch Oboler, and another lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from April 02, 1971 “Pelican Dung on Jacket.” The program is heard on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM and on the stream at wbai.org.

We start with a clip or two from the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr Smith Goes to Washington” starring Jimmy Stewart, Claude Raines, and Jean Arthur.

Then a taste of the Norman Corwin classic all-network special WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS heard on Dec 15, 1941. Pool feed, Mutual net aircheck. A "Bill Of Rights Day" broadcast. The story of the first ten amendments to the Constitution is told, 150 years after they were enacted. A superb production in the Corwin tradition, one week after Pearl Harbor. With Lionel Barrymore, narrated by Jimmy Stewart and Orson Welles, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston, Marjorie Main, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Elliott Lewis, Dane Clark, Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra, Franklin Roosevelt (from Washington, D.C.), written by Norman Corwin, music by Bernard Herrmann.

LIGHTS OUT from CBS on June 08, 1943 #36 "Organ" (aka “Vacation with Death”) for Ironized Yeast. The story of a strange summer house and its even stranger secrets. The script was used previously on "Lights Out" on May 12, 1937. Written and hosted by Arch Oboler, announcer Frank Martin.

A lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from WOR-NY on Friday April 02, 1971 from and e-Bay reel I won. “Pelican Dung on Jacket.”

Can't tell you what it's about – I'll be listening for the first time along with you.

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