This episode was originally released on 4/1/2022. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.
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In Breaking Walls episode 126 we continue our mini-series in April of 1954.
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Highlights:
• Eisenhower talks fear
• Lum and Abner’s April Fools’ Joke
• The Eternal Light
• Nightwatch — A New CBS Real Police Show
• Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
• Illegal Immigrant Fears
• Gildersleeve’s Dinner Party
• Easter Sunday and The End of The Whistler
• Jack Benny Holds a Seance
• The Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin
• Phil Harris and Alice Faye’s Red Cross Blood Drive
• Looking Ahead to May
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The reading material used in today’s episode was:
• On the Air — By John Dunning
• Network Radio Ratings — by Jim Ramsburg
• The Complete Escape Log — By Keith Scott
As well as articles from
• Broadcasting Magazine
• LIFE Magazine
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On the interview front:
• Parley Baer, George Balzer, Himan Brown, Phil Harris, Elliott Lewis, and Willard Waterman, spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.
• Himan Brown also spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these full interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org.
• Himan Brown, Bill Froug, and Betty Lou Gerson spoke to SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com.
• Elliott Lewis also spoke with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver.
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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:
• Voodoo Dreams — By Les Baxter
• Manhattan — By Blossom Dearie
• Walking In The Air — By George Winston
