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  Speaker 1: After an atomic war has scarred the future, a time
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  Speaker 1: travel mission is sent into the past with Albert Einstein
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: as its intended target. From NBC's X-1 comes Target 1,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: episode 123, broadcast December 26, 1957. Adapted for radio by
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: George Lefferts from Frederick Pohl's 1955 galaxy science fiction story,
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  Speaker 1: The drama follows travelers who believe a change in Einstein's
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: fate might avert the nuclear devastation of their own time.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Joseph Bell, Frank Silvera, Dean Olmquist, Al Jasbo Collins, Guy Repp,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: and Charles Webster are heard in the cast.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: Here is the original broadcast.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: This is Nightline, your open door to people and places,
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: and this is Walter O'Keefe. Nightline invites you to listen
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  Speaker 3: in on NBC's award-winning science fiction series, X-1.
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  Speaker 4: Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 2: X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1, fire.
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  Speaker 5: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 5: new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 2: These are stories of the future.
• 2:02
  Speaker 5: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 5: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 5: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 2: X minus 1. Tonight, Target One. But first, hear this.
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  Speaker 5: The presents have been opened, the gifts enjoyed, and in
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  Speaker 5: the case of the kids, a few are already slightly battered.
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  Speaker 5: But NBC has one more holiday package for you, and
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  Speaker 5: it'll be delivered over this.
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  Speaker 2: Weekend on Monitor.
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  Speaker 5: There'll be the music of such bands as those of
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  Speaker 5: Guy Lombardo and Richard Maltby, punctuated by the antic commentary
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  Speaker 5: of Monitor's own Bob and Ray and Fibber McGee and Molly,
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  Speaker 5: and underscored by the up-to-the-minute reports of NBC's newsmen at
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  Speaker 5: home and abroad.
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  Speaker 2: From Friday night through Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Midnight, Monitor will bring you another weekend of drama, music, news,
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  Speaker 5: and interviews. Of special interest to sports fans will be
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  Speaker 5: NBC's coverage of the Friday night fights, Saturday's blue-gray and
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  Speaker 5: north-south football games, and Sunday's National Football League championship games.
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  Speaker 5: Use and enjoy Monitor, your weekend radio service. Yes, start
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  Speaker 5: your weekend right with Monitor on Friday nights and stay
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  Speaker 5: with Monitor all weekend long over most of these same
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  Speaker 5: NBC stations.
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  Speaker 2: Now, X-1 and tonight's story.
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  Speaker 4: Target One. Headquarters of the World Council was in the
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  Speaker 4: ruined United Nations building in New York. It took me
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  Speaker 4: an hour to reach it, picking my way across the
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  Speaker 4: red-colored rubble that had once been a proud city. I
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  Speaker 4: was ushered into the office of the president of the council,
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  Speaker 4: a former Russian scientist named Melkov. It was hard to
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  Speaker 4: realize that only a few decades ago, these people had
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  Speaker 4: helped us destroy the world in an atomic war that
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  Speaker 4: left less than 100,000 people on the face of the globe.
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  Speaker 2: Come in. Dr. Marin. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Good to see you, Doctor. Sorry I'm two days late.
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  Speaker 4: I had to land at Boston. It's the only airport operating.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. You want to sit down?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose you are wondering what this is all about.
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  Speaker 4: Very little surprises me, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President. Good.
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  Speaker 6: As you know, Doctor, the Great War of 1960 left
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  Speaker 6: very little of the human race.
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  Speaker 2: What it did leave were two.
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  Speaker 6: Billion corpses, three continents rotting and unlivable, and every survivor mutating.
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  Speaker 6: I believe you yourself have had children who could scarcely
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  Speaker 6: be called human.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry to be so blunt.
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  Speaker 4: Why did you send for me, Mr. President?
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  Speaker 6: Doctor, suppose I gave you an opportunity to do something
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  Speaker 6: extremely practical.
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  Speaker 2: Such as?
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  Speaker 6: A chance to prevent the destruction of our world, which
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  Speaker 6: took place 30 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: To prevent what has happened? To stop an atomic war?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Would you do it?
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  Speaker 4: I'd sell my soul to the devil, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President. You mean that? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Doctor, what would you say was the most important scientific
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  Speaker 6: discovery of the 20th century?
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  Speaker 4: I suppose Einstein's equation. E equals MC squared.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: This formula unlocked the atom. Without it, there would have
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  Speaker 6: been no atomic energy. And consequently, no bomb.
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  Speaker 2: No war.
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  Speaker 4: The formula did not cause the war, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President.
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  Speaker 4: Nor did the man who discovered it. He was one
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  Speaker 4: of the finest human beings who ever lived. A man
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  Speaker 4: utterly dedicated to the pursuit of peace and harmony.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, exactly. That is what will make your task so.
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  Speaker 2: Abhorrent, Doctor.
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  Speaker 4: What is this task, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President? Quite simply, it is the murder of Albert Einstein.
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  Speaker 4: Are you insane?
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps. Only history will record that.
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  Speaker 4: How in the name of heaven Albert Einstein died in 1956?
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  Speaker 2: I am well aware of that.
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  Speaker 6: In order to commit this murder, Doctor, you will have
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  Speaker 6: to travel back in time.
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  Speaker 4: Travel back? You mean that.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that our scientists have succeeded in their experiments.
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  Speaker 6: Parachronon penetration has been achieved.
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  Speaker 4: It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, so were atomic energy and rockets to the moon
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  Speaker 6: and radio waves long before both of those.
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  Speaker 4: You're actually suggesting that I return to the early 20th
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  Speaker 4: century to commit a murder? Yes. But why Einstein? Why
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  Speaker 4: not the men who took his contributions and twisted them
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  Speaker 4: into ghastly and human weapons? Why not them?
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  Speaker 2: Because others would replace them.
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  Speaker 6: There are many minds so filled with contempt for their
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  Speaker 6: own lives that they would be willing.
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  Speaker 2: To destroy others.
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  Speaker 6: So warped with hate that they might even enjoy the job.
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  Speaker 4: No. No.
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  Speaker 2: No, it must be Einstein. Well, then why me?
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  Speaker 4: Why not select some murderer, some fiend?
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  Speaker 6: Because you are a man of the highest morality. This
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  Speaker 6: task must not be.
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  Speaker 2: Performed by some twisted monster. It must be done by
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  Speaker 2: a man.
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  Speaker 6: Of integrity who fully realizes his responsibility. To do otherwise
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  Speaker 6: would be to degrade ourselves and our victim.
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  Speaker 2: Come here to the window. Do you see that covered
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  Speaker 2: barge lying in the East River? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: That barge is the finest laboratory we could assemble. Inside
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  Speaker 6: it is the mechanism for complete K-misson penetration, maintaining a
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  Speaker 6: stable configuration.
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  Speaker 2: In effect, it is a floating time machine.
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  Speaker 4: You've tested it?
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  Speaker 2: It was tested last week.
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  Speaker 6: Professor Milton Waxman went back 40 years in time and returned.
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  Speaker 6: We cannot afford another test because our energy sources are limited.
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  Speaker 4: Will Waxman accompany me?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He and one other. Well, Doctor, what is your answer?
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: That afternoon, I was taken aboard the barge in the
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  Speaker 4: East River. I was left alone in the laboratory to
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  Speaker 4: wait for Waxman, the physicist who knew how to operate
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  Speaker 4: the chronosphere.
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  Speaker 2: Waxman, I, um... Who is this? His name is John. John,
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  Speaker 2: this is Dr. Charles Moran. I know the doctor.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe we've met. In my business, I have
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  Speaker 4: to know a lot of people I've never met.
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  Speaker 2: John is security. I see.
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  Speaker 4: He's going with us. To see there's no mistake.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, doctor. Very well.
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  Speaker 4: I don't suppose murderers can be choosy about their companions.
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  Speaker 2: Before we go any further.
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  Speaker 7: here are some clothes that will be suitable to the
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  Speaker 7: time and place which is our destination.
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  Speaker 2: Please put them on, doctor.
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  Speaker 8: While you're changing, I'll give you some background on the subject.
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  Speaker 8: Born on Germany, 1879. German citizen, religion Jewish. Became a
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  Speaker 8: Swiss citizen after graduation from Zurich Polytechnical Institution. Later migrated
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  Speaker 8: to the United States after Adolf Hitler came to power
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  Speaker 8: with a price set on his head by the Nazis.
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  Speaker 8: Nobel Prize for Physics, 1921. Copley Medal, 1925. Franklin, 1935.
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  Speaker 8: Personal habits.
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  Speaker 4: Must we do this?
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  Speaker 2: He's only doing his job. Go on, John.
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  Speaker 8: Personal habits. Works in a bare room with only a
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  Speaker 8: pencil and paper. Enjoys sailing, smokes a pipe, never drinks,
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  Speaker 8: is a violinist of constability.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 7: Now just strap yourself into the accelerator seat.
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  Speaker 2: Ready? Switch on.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 7: The sensation will be something akin to weightlessness. A disorientation
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  Speaker 7: and feeling of utter detachment. This will last until we
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  Speaker 7: have settled into.
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  Speaker 2: A new orbital configuration. We will be able to monitor
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  Speaker 2: our time segment on the screen before us.
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  Speaker 4: May I ask our objective?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. The Polytechnicum at Zurich.
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  Speaker 7: Graduation ceremony in the year 1900.
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  Speaker 2: So young.
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  Speaker 7: He was already formulating the theory of relativity at.
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  Speaker 2: This point, Doctor. We have no choice. It must be
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  Speaker 2: clean and thorough. Are you ready, gentlemen? Yes. Ready, Professor.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 7: We will begin to whirl until we reach speeds where
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  Speaker 7: K-Mason penetration is possible.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Now.
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  Speaker 4: The sensation was unlike anything I'd ever experienced. I felt bodiless, weightless.
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  Speaker 4: My consciousness seemed to float free. I was dimly aware
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  Speaker 4: of Waksman at the monitoring controls, but otherwise I remember
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  Speaker 4: no sensation.
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  Speaker 2: Later he told me that it.
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  Speaker 4: Took exactly one half hour to vector in on the
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  Speaker 4: right time and place. That was right after the whirling stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Marin, are you all right?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: John, I'm all right. Where are we?
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  Speaker 7: According to the monitor, our barge is at a dockside
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  Speaker 7: on the lake of Zurich. The year should be 1900.
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  Speaker 7: The time is two o'clock. We have exactly one hour
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  Speaker 7: to accomplish our mission. Open the hatchway, John.
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  Speaker 2: Well? Fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: A different world.
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  Speaker 2: We can't waste any time. The graduation ceremony is at three.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Very well.
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  Speaker 2: Just a moment, gentlemen. Here, take these.
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  Speaker 4: What are they?
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  Speaker 2: Guns. We'll need them. We stepped ashore.
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  Speaker 4: It was strange to see the world green and happy again.
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  Speaker 2: after our.
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  Speaker 4: Red radioactive ruins.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually, we.
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  Speaker 4: Located a policeman who spoke some English. He directed us
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  Speaker 4: to the auditorium of the Zurich Polytechnical Institute where the
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  Speaker 4: graduation ceremony was in progress. Don't attract much attention.
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  Speaker 2: Take a seat in the rear.
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  Speaker 9: And now, it gives me great pleasure to present the
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  Speaker 9: diplomas of graduation to the members of the graduating class
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  Speaker 9: of the Zurich Polytechnic Institute.
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  Speaker 4: First, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hans Kindler, cum laude. Thank you. Do you see him, John?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet.
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  Speaker 7: We will have to wait until they call him to
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  Speaker 7: the platform.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 9: Moran, you're the one who must do this.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready. Mr. Albert Einstein. That's him. Moran, shoot. Shoot.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do it. I can't. Give me that gun.
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  Speaker 4: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get Albert out. Now, hurry. Stop him.
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  Speaker 1: Stop him.
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  Speaker 7: They killed Einstein.
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  Speaker 5: They killed Einstein.
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  Speaker 2: Another few minutes.
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  Speaker 4: What do you suppose it will be like?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: Our world, the one we left. Without atomic fission, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: We'll soon know.
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  Speaker 4: One thing is for sure. There'll be no mass destruction.
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  Speaker 2: The people will be there. The people. Good Lord, there'll
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  Speaker 2: be billions of them.
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  Speaker 4: And the trees, the green shrubs, and the beautiful tall buildings.
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  Speaker 4: He looked very young.
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  Speaker 2: We're vectoring in on our year.
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  Speaker 7: Now hang on when I start the negative penetration.
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  Speaker 2: Brace yourselves.
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  Speaker 7: According to calculations, we should be back in the East
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  Speaker 7: River on the same day we left. The world will
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  Speaker 7: be as it would have been if Einstein had never existed.
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  Speaker 2: Open the hatch, John. Look at that. The city.
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  Speaker 4: New York is whole again. No ruins. No rubble.
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  Speaker 2: Those buildings are magnificent. Look at the trees and the parks. Moran,
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  Speaker 2: we've done it. It was worth it. We've done it.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: We've done it. Suddenly from nowhere, an official boat. A
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  Speaker 4: police boat. Suspicious of the barge and our parachrome and
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  Speaker 4: penetration equipment, we were arrested by federal agents. The barge
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  Speaker 4: and our time machines confiscated. We were drugged, tortured, questioned interminably.
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  Speaker 4: It went on for what seemed like days and weeks. Finally,
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  Speaker 4: when they decided that they had had every shred of
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  Speaker 4: information we possessed, we were taken before a huge, beetle-browed
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  Speaker 4: man who seemed to be a combination scientist and civil authority.
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  Speaker 4: Sit him down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Dr.
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  Speaker 10: Marin, we seem to have exhausted the possibilities. Tell me,
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  Speaker 10: is there anything you and your companions wish to tell
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  Speaker 10: me before you're disposed of?
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  Speaker 2: Disposed of?
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  Speaker 10: A euphemism for murdered.
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  Speaker 4: Murdered? Why, what have we done?
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  Speaker 10: You haven't done anything yet. But you have a thorough
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  Speaker 10: knowledge of nuclear physics, fission reaction, hydrogen bonds, etc.
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  Speaker 4: Lord, you mean you have the knowledge we tried to
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  Speaker 4: keep from you? You got it from us ourselves?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Don't flatter yourself, Doctor.
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  Speaker 10: We've known the principles of nuclear reaction ever since Cratchwood.
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  Speaker 2: Cratchwood?
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  Speaker 10: The Brazilian scientist. Discoverer of the equation E equals MC squared.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Then why are you going to destroy us?
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  Speaker 2: Because, my friend, you're too dangerous. You know too much.
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  Speaker 10: Information could lead to our enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Important principles.
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  Speaker 4: Enemies?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: You have no knowledge of contemporary affairs.
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: Beneath this building deep in the earth, there is a
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  Speaker 10: thorium pile going.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Thorium? Oh, you 235. Oh, would be.
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  Speaker 4: Better, yes.
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  Speaker 10: Our scientists are working that out. The problem of separation
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  Speaker 10: and so on. It's a highly secret project, naturally. We
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: call it only by the name Manhattan Project.
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  Speaker 4: Manhattan? Oh, no, it couldn't be. It's too coincidental. Yet
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  Speaker 4: I see it's true. You're going through exactly the same steps.
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  Speaker 4: In a year, you'll have an atom bomb. Then soon after,
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  Speaker 4: a hydrogen bomb. Then intercontinental missiles, and then.
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  Speaker 10: You seem to have great powers of prophecy, as well
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  Speaker 10: as great scientific knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: My friend.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever hear of a man named Einstein? Albert Einstein?
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  Speaker 1: Einstein?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard of him.
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  Speaker 4: Then the futility of it struck me. The futility of
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: trying to place the guilt of all of us on
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  Speaker 4: any one man. The futility of trying to do something
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  Speaker 4: worthwhile by evil means... and finally the futility of trying
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  Speaker 4: to murder an idea. As they led me to the
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: execution cell, where I now wait, the words of a
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: man whose books were destroyed in the war rang in
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  Speaker 4: my brain. The fault, dear Brutus, lies not with our stars,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: but with ourselves.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Fred Collins again.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: I'll have another word about X-1 in just a moment.
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: That how you feel, blue and miserable with a deep
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: down cold?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Listen. Every second.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Someone takes it for the miseries of a cold. Millions
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: more take Bromo Quinine. Every second someone takes it for
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: the miseries of a cold.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Bromo Quinine.
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: More people have taken more bromoquinine cold tablets for more
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: complete relief than any other cold tablet ever sold. You
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: could use aspirin or cough syrups or nose drops all
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: day and not get bromoquinine's relief. Bromoquinine works to relieve
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: stopped-up nose, body aches, fever.
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  Speaker 2: Irregularity, the blues, and headache, too.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, more complete relief for even virus colds. For bromoquinine
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: is the only cold tablet sold with wonder-working quinine and
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: five other medicines health-fortified with vitamin C.
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  Speaker 2: Remember... Every second someone.
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  Speaker 7: Takes it for.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the miseries of a cold.
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  Speaker 4: Millions more take Bromo Quinine.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Get Bromo Quinine brand cold tablets.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: You have just heard X-1 presented by the National Broadcasting
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: month features Kill Me With Kindness by Richard Wilson.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: What would you do if.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: You found yourself in a place where your.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Every whim was granted? Don't worry.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't be the first to spoil Utopia by attempting
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: to improve it. Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today. Tonight,
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  Speaker 5: X-1 has brought you Target One, a story from the
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: pages of Galaxy written by Frederick Pohl and adapted for
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  Speaker 5: radio by George Lefferts. Featured in our cast were Joseph
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  Speaker 5: Bell as Dr. Marin, Frank Silvera as President Malkov, Dean
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  Speaker 5: Almquist as Professor Voxman, Al Collins as John, Guy Rett
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  Speaker 5: as the official, with Charles Webster.
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  Speaker 2: This is Fred Collins speaking.
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  Speaker 5: X-1 was directed by George Boutsas and is an NBC
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  Speaker 5: Radio Network production.
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  Speaker 1: And so we conclude X-1's Target One. Follow X-1 for
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: more classic broadcasts.