VARIETY OF PROGRAMS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, May 3, 1997

SUSPENSE (1-16-47) “Overture in Two Keys” starring Joan Bennett as the wife of a music professor who falls in love with her husband’s student.

ARRIVAL OF THE HINDENBURG (5-6-37, almost exactly 60 years ago) Announcer Herb Morrison, at Lakehurst, New Jersey to record the arrival of the airship Hindenburg from Germany, ends up covering one of the great aviation disasters when the ship explodes and crashes.

EXTRA:  Telephone conversation with Mike Stosich and Karl Pearson who have restored the original disc recording of the Hindenberg disaster.
PLUS: Interview with Rev. Kevin Shanley who, as a youngster in New Jersey, remembers the crash of the Hindenberg.

ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET (9-16-45) In order to pass the initiation into the Unicorns Lodge, Ozzie must be totally agreeable for twenty-four hours.

GOSSIP CLUB (1930s) Eddie and Fannie Cavanaugh with their guest, Chicago actor Les Tremayne.

PLEASE STAND BY – A History of Radio (1986) Lesson 26: News… the War Years covers the development of news on the air from 1935-1945.