One of old time radio's most popular shows, Dragnet, starring Jack Webb, was a dramatized police procedure show showing as accurately as possible the real work of Los Angeles police detectives at work in the 50's.

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Steve heads for an unnamed South American country in which the facist leader running for election has just been shot by an American. His mission: to find out what's going on.

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The very best in old time rdio entertainment, Dangerous Assignment inspired the James Bond stories which came later. 

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Steve Mitchell takes us on another two missions to keep the world safe for democracy.

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Life Can Be Murder- Marlowe meets a girl named Marney carr in a bar and becomes involved in a murder investigation when she disappears

Good Neighbor Policy- Crossed wires on Marlowe'sparty line lead to a robber, a murder, and the Los Angeles library...

Soldiers of the Press was a WWII era radio show created by United Press to highlight the bravery of their imbedded reporters. The eyewitness accounts are voiced by actors but are the actual written accounts of the "Soldiers of the Press"- all heroes, and very intersting history.

Henry Burrell- The Bombing of Navareno Bay

Robert Miller- The Men of Guadalcanal

Robert B. McMillan: North Africa

Joe James Custer- Battle Fleet

1001 Radio Days Summer Special- Soldiers of the Press

Todays Accounts:

Leo Disher: Heroism in Oran

Robert T. Bellam  Japanese Prisoners

William Tyree: The Pacific Theater

Frank Havlett- Fall of Bataan

Ned Russell: The Seige of Stuka

SUMMER WWII SPECIAL

Soldiers of the Press was a WWII Radio show which featured dramatized accounts of actual war correspondents who were engaged in every theater of the war. Many are fascinating histories which haven't received much retelling but which were very important to the war. 

Today:

Robert P Martin  Bombers Over Haiphong

Leo Disher- A Letter to Mrs Marshall

Robert Miller- A Son of Bushido

Walter Cronkite- Dry Martini

The Embezzler- Barrie heads to a small town to track down a man who embezzled money from a local bank

The Schemers- Barrie is hired to find $200,000 which was stolen by a corporate treasurer.