Latest / Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Bob Bailey 30-Minute Era (1956–1960)
The Confederate Coinage Matter
Aired: Jul 28th, 1957. Newspaper magnate Henry Samson's prized $20,000 Confederate half-dollar vanishes from his heavily guarded estate, Zora, and Johnny Dollar heads south to unravel a theft that looks like an inside job. With a suspicious secretary, a magnetic wife named Delilah, and a locked display case that wasn't picked but smashed, Johnny has to sort family loyalty from cold calculation. Classic Bob Bailey wit meets a deep-South mystery steeped in Civil War history and old money.
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