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

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A special thank you to Ted Davenport, Jerry Haendiges, and Gordon Skene.

For Ted go to RadioMemories.com, for Jerry, visit OTRSite.com, and for Gordon, please go to PastDaily.com.

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Thank you to:

Tony Adams

Steven Allmon

Orson Orsen Chandler

Phil Erickson

Jessica Hanna

Briana Isaac

Thomas M. Joyce

Ryan Kramer

Gary Mollica

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Ray Shaw

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