CELEBRATING THE 61ST ANNIVERSARY
OF JACK’S BENNY’S 39TH BIRTHDAY
Part 1

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 5, 1994

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (2-6-44) WW II remote broadcast from Roosevelt Navy Base on Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.  Jack recalls his 1917 enlistment in the Navy.

SPEAKING OF RADIO The Jack Benny Program (2-6-94) The premiere broadcast of the first of a four-part series produced and edited by Chuck Schaden.

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (2-14-37) Guest is bandleader Ben Bernie. On Jack’s birthday, the cast and audience sing “Happy Birthday.”

WORLD NEWS TODAY (2-6-44) Douglas Edwards and CBS correspondents report on the news of WW II. “German elite troops have been thrown into the battle of the bridgehead below Rome today and Allied forces have fallen back two miles to adjust their line… American heavy bombers have smashed at German air fields in France for the second day in a row.”

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (2-13-38) Tomorrow is Jack’s birthday and he has been selected as one of the ten best-dressed men in Hollywood. Guest is actor Robert Taylor.

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (2-19-39) Jack got a bear for his birthday last week (first reference to the bear as “Carmichael”). Lots of talk about next week’s Academy Awards.