Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Classic Radio Special - CONELRAD
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Classic Radio Special - CONELRAD
A podcast on the predecessor to the Emergency Broadcast System and the Emergency Alert System - CONELRAD
First, No Second Chance from 1955 - "No Second Chance" Conelrad in "practice" radio public service drama / documentary. 1955 Written by Jack Kessler Directed by Eric Howlett Produced by the National Office of Civil Defense by WJR Detroit
Second, By The People from 1959. A government produced radio drama about the Emergency Broadcasting System known as CONELRAD. The story concerns Key City Chronicle reporter Dan Taylor (played by Lon Clark) doing the "whole story" on CONELRAD. Three years after this broadcast, CONELRAD was replaced by the Emergency Broadcasting System (EBS).
Finally a recording of the 1961 CONELRAD test, Operation Alert 1961 complete with message from President Kennedy.
This recording was made directly off the air. The station was 1240 Khz WSBC in Chicago.
First, No Second Chance from 1955 - "No Second Chance" Conelrad in "practice" radio public service drama / documentary. 1955 Written by Jack Kessler Directed by Eric Howlett Produced by the National Office of Civil Defense by WJR Detroit
Second, By The People from 1959. A government produced radio drama about the Emergency Broadcasting System known as CONELRAD. The story concerns Key City Chronicle reporter Dan Taylor (played by Lon Clark) doing the "whole story" on CONELRAD. Three years after this broadcast, CONELRAD was replaced by the Emergency Broadcasting System (EBS).
Finally a recording of the 1961 CONELRAD test, Operation Alert 1961 complete with message from President Kennedy.
This recording was made directly off the air. The station was 1240 Khz WSBC in Chicago.
View all episodes
By Wyatt Cox
4.8
2828 ratings
A podcast on the predecessor to the Emergency Broadcast System and the Emergency Alert System - CONELRAD
First, No Second Chance from 1955 - "No Second Chance" Conelrad in "practice" radio public service drama / documentary. 1955 Written by Jack Kessler Directed by Eric Howlett Produced by the National Office of Civil Defense by WJR Detroit
Second, By The People from 1959. A government produced radio drama about the Emergency Broadcasting System known as CONELRAD. The story concerns Key City Chronicle reporter Dan Taylor (played by Lon Clark) doing the "whole story" on CONELRAD. Three years after this broadcast, CONELRAD was replaced by the Emergency Broadcasting System (EBS).
Finally a recording of the 1961 CONELRAD test, Operation Alert 1961 complete with message from President Kennedy.
This recording was made directly off the air. The station was 1240 Khz WSBC in Chicago.
First, No Second Chance from 1955 - "No Second Chance" Conelrad in "practice" radio public service drama / documentary. 1955 Written by Jack Kessler Directed by Eric Howlett Produced by the National Office of Civil Defense by WJR Detroit
Second, By The People from 1959. A government produced radio drama about the Emergency Broadcasting System known as CONELRAD. The story concerns Key City Chronicle reporter Dan Taylor (played by Lon Clark) doing the "whole story" on CONELRAD. Three years after this broadcast, CONELRAD was replaced by the Emergency Broadcasting System (EBS).
Finally a recording of the 1961 CONELRAD test, Operation Alert 1961 complete with message from President Kennedy.
This recording was made directly off the air. The station was 1240 Khz WSBC in Chicago.
More shows like Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox
View all
The Best of Car Talk
16,523 Listeners
X Minus One Podcast
356 Listeners
Dragnet
254 Listeners
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
1,914 Listeners
Old Time Radio Westerns
516 Listeners
Gunsmoke | OTRWesterns.com
422 Listeners
The Great Detectives Present Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Old Time Radio)
912 Listeners
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
1,033 Listeners
Suspense OTR
373 Listeners
Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)
426 Listeners
Old Time Radio Mystery, Suspense, & Horror
692 Listeners
DISGRACELAND
12,884 Listeners
Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
167 Listeners
1001 Stories From the Old West
188 Listeners
A Twist of History
988 Listeners