This Sunday, June 07, 2026, from 8 to 10 pm, and repeated at 4am Friday Jun 13, we will hear a tribute to Edward R Murrow from CBS in 1965 shortly after his death, and a bit of his D-Day coverage from I CAN HEAR IT NOW, and a classic story from THE WHISTLER, but from a rare Chicago version of the mostly West Coast series. Of course we begin with our weekly episode of GUNSMOKE! It's tonight on THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO!! Tune in to WBAI-NY 99.5 FM at tonight, or listen to the stream at wbai.org for THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO, produced by Max Schmid.
 

We open with a brief tribute to our friend and colleague from the Gotham Radio Players, Paul Becton, who has passed away recently. More next week

GUNSMOKE from CBS via the AFRTS on June 15, 1958 #323 “Old Flame.” A beautiful woman named Dolly comes to Dodge to meet her old friend Matt Dillon. Dolly has an unusual reason for coming to Dodge, and Kitty realizes she's up to no good. With William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Joseph Kearns, Jeanne Bates, John Dehner, written by Marian Clark, produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, SFX by Ray Kemper & Bill James, announcer George Walsh.

THE WHISTLER from WBBM, Chicago origination on Aug 09, 1946 "Brief Pause For Murder" for Meisterbrau Beer. The script was used on "The Whistler" on the CBS Pacific net, September 11, 1946 and on September 9, 1949. A radio announcer enlists the aid of an ex-con radio engineer in the murder of his wife. This broadcast has a studio audience. With Beverly Younger, Ken Griffen, Fahey Flynn, produced by Sherman Marks, music conducted by Hunter Taylor.

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THIS IS EDWARD R. MURROW from the CBS Radio Network on April 30, 1965. From the archives of WFAU Augusta, Maine.

Narrated by Robert Trout, this program was broadcast following the passing of Mr. Murrow on April 27, 1965. Edward Roscoe Murrow, born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) is best known as a CBS broadcaster and producer during the formative years of U.S. radio and television news programs from the 1930s to the 1950s, when radio still dominated the airwaves although television was beginning to make its indelible mark, particularly in the US. Over the decades, numerous publications have portrayed Murrow as one of the architects of U.S. broadcast news, but in the political climate of recent years, he is increasingly viewed as a defender of rights against McCarthy-type witch hunts.

Murrow's most powerful anti-McCarthy broadcast, March 1954, on See It Now, helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
 

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