INDEPENDENCE DAY 50 YEARS AGO

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, July 4, 1998

YOU ARE THERE (7-4-48) “Philadelphia, July 4, 1776” offers coverage of the final debate on the Declaration of Independence and the vote of the American colonies. Reporting are John Daly, Ken Roberts, Maj. John Fielding Elliott, Ned Calmer, Bud Collier. Sustaining, CBS. (27:06)

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT (7-4-48) Garry Moore presents the quiz show with the $64 Ques-tion. Members of the radio studio audience try to answer questions about animal names in sports, plays with famous stars, ladies names in song titles, and presidential nicknames. The Jackpot Question is worth $640. Cookie Fairchild and the orchestra, announcer Ken Niles. Eversharp, NBC. (30:341

QUIZ KIDS (7-4-48) Chief Quizzer Joe Kelly has some topical questions about the Fourth of July for kids Joel Kupperman, Lonny Lunde, Rennie Templeton, Nancy McLeary, and Nannette Hexler. Alka Seltzer, NBC. (28:23)

ROBERT TROUT AND THE NEWS (7-4-48) News items concerning Marshall Tito of Yugo¬slavia; United Nations terms for permanent peace between the Arabs and Jews; a burgulary in Paris; politics in the United States; and a great baseball inning for the Boston Red Sox. Pillsbury, NBC. 14:38)

LIVING — 1948 (7-4-48) Ben Grauer presents a “Self Portrait of the United States on Inde-pendence Day.” A drama-document about the typical American in 1948 as revealed by many years of poll-taking by the American Institute of Public Opinion and Dr. George Gallop, its president. Sustaining, NBC. (24:51)

SHEAFFER PARADE (7-4-48) Eddy Howard and his orchestra present “an Independence Day salute to the good old USA.” Selections in-clude “Down By the 0-H-I-0,” “Missouri Waltz,” “America the Beautiful,” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag.” Cleve Kirby announces. Sheaffer Pen Co., NBC. (29:50)

ESCAPE (7-4-48) “A Tooth for Paul Revere” by Steven Vincent Benet. “You are spurring a lathered horse through darkened streets, trapped by two hostile armies, with a kit of magic in your pocket and the American revolution in the balance.” Cast features Harry Bartell as Large Butterwick, Parley Baer as Paul Revere, Barry Kroeger as narrator. William Conrad announces. Sustaining, CBS. (28:25)