RADIO AND THE KOREAN WAR – PT 2

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, June 24th, 2000

SUSPENSE (12-20-59) “Korean Christmas Carol.” A soldier, spending his first Army Christmas in Korea in 1958, gives a ride to a hitch-hiking G.I. who recalls his Christmas in Korea, during the war, seven years earlier, in 1951. CBS. (23 min)

DESTINATION FREEDOM (4-29-51) “Korean Frontline,” a story of the United Nations’ ef­fort in the Korean conflict. At a front line near the 38th Parallel a war correspondent talks about the war with a couple of U.S. G.I.s. Sustaining, WMAQ/NBC. (29 min)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (9-16-51) First show of the new season after Jack returns from his USO trip to Korea. AFRS rebroadcast. (24 min)

1952 ELECTION (11-9-52) After President Truman decided not to run for a third term, Gov. Adali Stevenson of Illinois was the Demo­cratic candidate and General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Republican nominee. On this election night during the Korean war, Stevenson and his running mate, Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama, concede the election while Ike and his vice president-elect Senator Richard Nixon offer messages of victory. (14 min)

PRESIDENT TRUMAN (1-15-53) President Harry S Truman, “on the eve of his return to private life, speaks from his office in the ex­ecutive wing of the White House. This ad­dress is his farewell address to the nation.” The retiring chief executive talks about the job of the president; FDR’s death; Potsdam; the decision to drop the atomic bomb; the sur­render of Japan; the Cold War; the United Na­tions; the Marshall Plan; Berlin Airlift; Korea, the decisions that had to be made, and why he has not dropped the A-bomb in Korea. CBS and all networks. (27 min)

STARS OVER HOLLYWOOD (12-26-53) “Any­where, U.S.A.” starring Rock Hudson as Air Force Lt. John Grayson, a former Korean pris­oner of war who visits a small town to see the girlfriend of his buddy who died in the POW camp. Carnation Evaporated Milk, CBS. (29 min)

SUSPENSE (5-17-59) “A Friend of Daddy’s” starring Frank Lovejoy. When an army buddy from the Korean war shows up, a man ex­tends the hospitality of his home. CBS. (19 min)