Episode 541 - American History Mysteries (Crime Classics & The Whistler)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Happy Fourth of July! We're celebrating America's birthday with some tales of murder and mystery pulled from the history books and dramatized on the outstanding anthology series Crime Classics. We'll hear "The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner" - the story of the first woman tried and executed in the United States (originally aired on CBS on June 15, 1953); the life and death of one of the west's most infamous outlaws in "Billy Bonney, Bloodletter: Also Known as 'The Kid'" (originally aired on CBS on October 21, 1953); and "The Bloody, Bloody Banks of Fall River," where Lizzie Borden took an axe (originally aired on CBS on September 30, 1953). Finally, the dastardly deeds of one of history's greatest rogues are presented in "His Own Reward" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on March 25, 1951).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a sucker's road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you're about to hear is true. The
0:12.5	The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.5	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:21.5	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.
0:25.0	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.0	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
0:33.2	yours truly Johnny Deller And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets where today in honor of America's
1:01.0	birthday I'm sharing some mysteries from the pages of U.S. history.
1:06.9	And if you're looking for true tales of murder from the past, you can't do better than
1:12.4	crime classics. one of radio's last great dramatic programs.
1:18.8	Crime Classics was another collaboration between producer and director Elliot Lewis and writers Morton Fine and David Friedkin.
1:27.0	The trio had already given radio one of its best detective shows with Broadway is My Beat.
1:34.8	Frying classics grew out of Elliot Lewis's interest in famous murder cases, and over the
1:40.3	show's one-year run on CBS, with trademark wit in the scripts by Fine and
1:45.9	Friedkin, it dramatized stories from ancient Rome and the Emperor Nero's efforts to kill
1:51.4	his mother all the way up to the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky.
1:57.8	The deaths of Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln were presented alongside stories of Blackbeard and notorious grave robbers
2:05.2	Burke and Hair. The casts each week consisted of some of the best actors in radio.
2:11.5	People we've heard time and time again on this podcast like
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