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Episode 13, March 26, 1950. Branch Patterson is running for sheriff, but Hoppy suspects the former sheriff has met with foul play.

Episode 14 aired on March 16, 1951. Edward R. Murrow's summary of the news of the week. In May 1950, a little-known U.S. Senator named Estes Kefauver, a 47 year-old Democrat from Tennessee, began a series of investigative hearings on organized crime. These formal hearings of the U.S. Senate — which came to be known as the “Kefauver Hearings” — were unique in the history of politics, also heralding the early power of television, as they became the first congressional hearings to draw a large national audience.

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Episode 27 aired on CBS Radio May 24, 1959. Paladin is hired to bring to justice the legendary Pappy French, a bank robber with a hidden $50,000 somewhere.

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Episode 51 aired April 11, 1953 on CBS Radio. Frank Bissell and his gang arrive in Dodge. Marshal Dillon gives them until sundown to get out of town. William Conrad and John Dehner star.

Series Description: Gunsmoke is one of those long-running classic Old-Time Radio shows that everyone knows and remembers. It's also one that is still respected for its high values, in all aspects. Gunsmoke first aired on the CBS network on April 26, 1952, billed as the first adult western.

Here are several edited excerpts of Alan Freed on the air in the early 1950s. At the end you will hear his brief farewell to fans following the payola scandal of that time. Alan Freed was not the one individual responsible of accepting “payola”, however he was among the many most visibly linked to the promulgation of rock n’ roll. Alan Freed has been credited with being the first to popularize the title Rock n’Roll in relation to this specific music style. On November 20, 1959, WABC fired Alan Freed over the payola scandal, which effectively ended Freed’s career as a DJ and force in the record business. On May 19, 1960, Freed and seven other radio figures were arrested and booked at a police station in Manhattan and charged with receiving a total of $116,850 in payola. 

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A poor reception air check of an hour of the Alan Freed Show on WINS 1010 New York City on March 22, 1955. Freed was hired by WINS radio in in September of 1954.. The following January he held a landmark dance there, promoting black performers as rock and roll artists. Within a month, the music industry was advertising "rock and roll" records in the trade papers.

Brief show introduction from 1950 of Albert James "Alan" Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965). An American disc jockey. He also produced and promoted large traveling concerts with various acts, helping to spread the importance of rock and roll music throughout North America. WVJS (1420 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Owensboro, Kentucky.

Episode 54 aired on CBS Radio September 19, 1948. In the middle of an category 4 hurricane. Houses, animals, and trees are flying over you, and you suddenly realize that you have tampered with the Universe. You are bringing about the destruction of the World. Adapted from a short story by H.G. Wells by editor Les Crutchfield for CBS. Stars Ben Wright (photo) and John Dehner who later team up as HeyBoy and Paladin for radio's Have Gun Will Travel series.