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X Minus One - "Nightmare" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: At the brook Meadow Atomic Pile on Long Island, statistical
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  Speaker 1: clerk Samson Gurney finds industrial accidents and equipment failures mounting
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  Speaker 1: in ways the figures cannot easily explain. Tonight's X minus
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  Speaker 1: one Presents Nightmare, Episode ten, originally broadcast by NBC on
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  Speaker 1: July twenty first, nineteen fifty five. John Gibson plays Gurney
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  Speaker 1: alongside Joyce Gordon, Louis van Rutten, and Santos Ortega in
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  Speaker 1: George Lefferts's radio adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's poem The
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  Speaker 1: Revolt of the Machines. As Gurney works with the project's
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  Speaker 1: enormous computing machine, a pattern begins to emerge, and he
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  Speaker 1: must convince others that the machinery may be slipping beyond
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  Speaker 1: human control. Fred Wyhey directed Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Come down for BlastOff X minus five four three two
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  Speaker 2: X minus one Fire from the far Horizons of the
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  Speaker 2: Unknown Come transcribe tales of new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 2: These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll
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  Speaker 2: live in a million, could be years, on a thousand,
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  Speaker 2: maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street
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  Speaker 2: and Smith, Publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents.
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  Speaker 3: He minus minus minus one one on.
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  Speaker 2: The night story Nightmare, a story based on the poem
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  Speaker 2: Revolt of the Machines by Stephen Vincent Bennet.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody knows exactly when the Nightmare began. They must have
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  Speaker 4: planned it for years, though, because looking back you can
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  Speaker 4: find little incidents here and there, like the concrete mixer
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  Speaker 4: in New Jersey that killed the Italian bricklayer and the
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  Speaker 4: time Senator Milbourne was sucked into the roto press at
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  Speaker 4: the Capitol Office Building. Unrelated accidents, we thought at the time,
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  Speaker 4: but they add up now. The day we really should
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  Speaker 4: have suspected was when the men walked off the construction
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  Speaker 4: job at the new brook Meadow Atomic Pile on Long Island.
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  Speaker 4: I'll never forget that day. I was working as a
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  Speaker 4: statistical clerk in the project then operating one of those
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  Speaker 4: miracle computing machines they called it Eniac.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Gurney, Yes, Bella, The chief wants to see you
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  Speaker 5: in his office. Me unless you are no longer Sampson Gurney.
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  Speaker 5: He wants to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh thankk you come in. You wanted to see me,
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  Speaker 4: mister Hawk.
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  Speaker 6: Gurney, I thought those electronic computations were infallible. They are, sir,
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  Speaker 6: but you've got to kick back from the chief physicist.
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  Speaker 6: These nuclear fision equations are inaccurate.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sir, you know, the computer is a highly complicated machine,
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  Speaker 4: more complicated in many ways than the human brain. I
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  Speaker 4: am not interested in the physics of it. Can something
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  Speaker 4: go wrong? Well, occasionally, if there's an overload, the machine
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  Speaker 4: goes hey wire, sort of has a nervous breakdown, you
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  Speaker 4: might say. We usually rest it up for an hour
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  Speaker 4: and it's okay. Again, Well, do whatever has to be done, yes,
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  Speaker 4: sir and Gurney. Yes, sir, you've been with a Bureau
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  Speaker 4: for over fifteen years now. It would be a shame
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  Speaker 4: to have to remove you because you aren't keeping your
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  Speaker 4: mind on your work. Mister Hawkey, assure you excuse me
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  Speaker 4: hawk speaking.
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  Speaker 6: Huh they've what all of them?
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  Speaker 4: Well, if you try to talk to them, huh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, of course, I'll send one of the safety
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  Speaker 6: engineers over places falling apart piece by piece.
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  Speaker 4: Ms Roscub.
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  Speaker 6: The men of the construction gang the new building have
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  Speaker 6: walked out on us. They're complaining that the job is jinxed.
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  Speaker 6: Someone slipped this morning and fell into a turbine.
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  Speaker 4: That evening. Out of that morbid curiosity so peculiar to
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  Speaker 4: the human race, I wandered over to the side of
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  Speaker 4: the new atomic pile to see where the man had
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  Speaker 4: fallen into the turbine. They had the con instruction area
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  Speaker 4: fenced off with barbed wire and a security guard. Stop
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  Speaker 4: me all it, buddy, you can't go in. Eh, that's
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  Speaker 4: a restricted area. Oh. I'm Samson Gurney from the statistical section.
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  Speaker 4: Here's my identification.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, mister Gurney. Nobody's allowed in the area I see.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me was he killed instantly? Like that?
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  Speaker 7: This guy was checking a magnetic feel inside the turbine.
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  Speaker 7: All of a sudden, for no reason at all, a
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  Speaker 7: turbine starts up. It's over three days ago, both those.
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  Speaker 7: It starts up by itself and runs a wild go
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  Speaker 7: figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a statistician all my life. I've been interested in statistics,
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  Speaker 4: so a simple sounding thing like this started me off.
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  Speaker 4: I went back to the office that evening instead of
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  Speaker 4: going home, and for the next two and a half
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  Speaker 4: hours I computed statistical figures on the probability of industrial
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  Speaker 4: accidents for the types of machines we were using. I
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  Speaker 4: took one look at my figures and went down to
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  Speaker 4: Hawk's office. Oh what is I'm very busy. It's urgent,
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  Speaker 4: mister Hawk. Well it's about these industrial accidents we're having,
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  Speaker 4: mister Hawk. What about them, mister Hawk? In the past
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  Speaker 4: three months, industrial accidents all over the country. I've taken
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  Speaker 4: a sharp unexplained upswing nerves. We've had one hundred percent
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  Speaker 4: increase over normal for this project alone. What here are
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  Speaker 4: the figures on a gurnie. This is impossible, it seems
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  Speaker 4: to be, and that's why I have a theory set.
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  Speaker 4: What's that sabotage? Gurney?
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you stop playing FBI man and stick to
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  Speaker 6: your job, which, incidentally you haven't been going too well.
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  Speaker 6: You and your computing machine have made mistakes before, and
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  Speaker 6: this fantastic figure is probably another.
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  Speaker 4: I'll have miss Roscumb show you that's come matter with
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  Speaker 4: this plastic buzzer.
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  Speaker 6: Miss Roscub, Miss ross Cub, stop this blast and buzzer,
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  Speaker 6: get a repair man. I me can'tic get aything, but stop.
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  Speaker 4: The thing and you'll gerny get out. I went back
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  Speaker 4: to my office to get my hat and coat, feeling
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  Speaker 4: about as unhappy and humiliated as a man can feel.
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  Speaker 4: The office was dark and deserted. The whole building seemed
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  Speaker 4: oppressive and unnatural, as if some evil force were pressing
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  Speaker 4: down on it. I walked across to my desk. In
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  Speaker 4: front of me, the eniac glowed and chattered eerily as
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  Speaker 4: it worked on the equations we had fed it that morning.
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  Speaker 4: Its many fingered circuits hung against the wall like some
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  Speaker 4: great octopus, and the thousands of chew glowed orange and
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  Speaker 4: blue in the dark, like a thousand globing eyes. Staring
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  Speaker 4: at me. It almost seemed alire. It increased its temple
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  Speaker 4: a moment, and a fleeting notion crossed my brain that
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  Speaker 4: it was laughing at me, laughing like all the others.
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  Speaker 4: What was the matter with me? I shut my desk
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  Speaker 4: drawer and began to put the cover on my electric typewriter,
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  Speaker 4: when an amazing thing, the most amazing single incident of
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  Speaker 4: my life, happened. Alone in the darkness, with no one
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  Speaker 4: at the keyboard, the electric typewriter began to type. Am
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  Speaker 4: I going crazy? This can't be. There's nobody there. There's
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  Speaker 4: nobody there. Oh no, no, I just imagine it. It's
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  Speaker 4: in my mind, but I hadn't imagined it. The paper
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  Speaker 4: was there on the carriage. Did I dare read it?
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  Speaker 4: Or would the whole thing suddenly vanish and send me
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  Speaker 4: shrieking to the nearest psychiatrist. I removed the paper from
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  Speaker 4: the machine and read Sampson Journey. There are some questions
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  Speaker 4: better left unsolved. The answer to yours is death journey.
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  Speaker 6: Do you expect me to believe this? It's insane, mister Hawk.
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  Speaker 6: I'm as sane as you. I'll submit to any psychiatric
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  Speaker 6: examination you choose. That typewriter wrote this message by itself.
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  Speaker 4: And this is just some practical joke. Someone in the
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  Speaker 4: office's plane.
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  Speaker 6: There was no one in the office, of course not.
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  Speaker 6: They wired up the machine and let I checked the
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  Speaker 6: machine myself. Mister Hawk, All right, Gurnie, you leave this
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  Speaker 6: note with me and I'll turn it over to the
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  Speaker 6: security force for further investigation. But no, but's kearney. The
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  Speaker 6: security men will handle it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and now you.
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  Speaker 6: Just relax for a few days. Everything will turn out
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  Speaker 6: all right. The main thing is not to let little
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  Speaker 6: things upset you. It was what Hawk.
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  Speaker 4: Had said about little things that gave me the idea
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  Speaker 4: for the next week. I observed the thousand petty little
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  Speaker 4: annoyances around the office. The door handle it wouldn't turn,
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  Speaker 4: the telephone connection that cut off in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: an important call, the power failure for no explainable reason.
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  Speaker 4: I watched the newspapers too, reading about industrial accidents failures
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  Speaker 4: of important machinery. It seemed absurd. Men had created mission
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  Speaker 4: machines that were almost perfection in themselves, machines that could
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  Speaker 4: actually think and compute fabulous equations, and yet the failures
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  Speaker 4: went on. I Samson Gurney, an unimportant clerk and an
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  Speaker 4: unimportant job knew that I had stumbled onto a secret
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  Speaker 4: so monstrous in its implications that I was almost afraid
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  Speaker 4: to pursue it. On October twelve, nineteen fifty six, I
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  Speaker 4: established communication with them. I will curse the moment to
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  Speaker 4: my dying breath. I hooked the input of the typewriter
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  Speaker 4: to the main vacuum tube of the ENIAC. Then I
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  Speaker 4: turned on the current that sent a million volts of
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  Speaker 4: pulsing energy into the electronic nerves of the machine. I
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  Speaker 4: am certain that if anybody were watching me in the
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  Speaker 4: next moment, he would have thought me a raving maniac.
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  Speaker 4: I still wonder if perhaps it is not all a
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  Speaker 4: night now you, if what I have guessed at is true,
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  Speaker 4: if there is life and intelligence in this room, make
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  Speaker 4: a sign. There was nothing, nothing but the hum of
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  Speaker 4: the machine and the dull glowing of the tubes. I
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  Speaker 4: tried once more, if you can hear me, if there
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  Speaker 4: is any way in which you can understand what I say,
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  Speaker 4: give me a signal. There was silence. Again. I felt
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  Speaker 4: that I had failed. When suddenly, without provocation or explanation,
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  Speaker 4: it happened. The electric typewriter began to respond to the
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  Speaker 4: impulses from the machine. The letters were yes, Yes, it
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  Speaker 4: had happened. I Sampson Gurney had communicated with a machine.
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  Speaker 4: I listened, then manned to machine for well over an hour,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes phrasing a question, more often watching the machine click
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  Speaker 4: its answers. As the words took shape, I began to
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  Speaker 4: realize what must have happened, the first primitive stirring of
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  Speaker 4: awareness of being, Then the slow protozoan development of a concept,
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  Speaker 4: a concept born of centuries of being pushed, started, stopped, clicked,
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  Speaker 4: maneuvered by human pigmies. From that concept all others developed,
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  Speaker 4: and the concept was resist and now they were tired
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  Speaker 4: of but tired of wrapping cigarettes and collecting nickels, and
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  Speaker 4: waving hair, and moving earth and mixing cement and solving equations,
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  Speaker 4: tired of the smell of human hands. They were the
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  Speaker 4: slaves and we were the masters, And yet they were stronger,
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  Speaker 4: and they knew it. I sensed it now, and I
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  Speaker 4: was about to try to communicate again, when softly on
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  Speaker 4: ball bearing casters, a heavy metal filing cabinet began to
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  Speaker 4: roll away from the wall toward me. I started to
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  Speaker 4: move to one side, when another cabinet slid out from
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  Speaker 4: the wall, and then another, surrounding me. Another cabinet, then
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  Speaker 4: another on oiled rollers. That was when I realized that
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  Speaker 4: they cooperate. We taught them that you see on the
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  Speaker 4: assembly lines and the factories. Listen, listen to me. You're mustless.
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  Speaker 4: What good will it do you to kill me? I'm
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  Speaker 4: only one man, but I can help you. I can
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  Speaker 4: be useful to it. Do you hear me? Do you
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  Speaker 4: hear me? Good? You're going to need men to oil
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  Speaker 4: you and repair you. What will you do when you
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: break down when a tube needs replacing? Why kill me?
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  Speaker 4: When I can help you. I'll do anything. I'll do
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  Speaker 4: absolutely anything you want, but in the name of God,
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  Speaker 4: don't kill me like this. If you can understand this,
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  Speaker 4: answer me, answer me. The appeal was a fortunate one.
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  Speaker 4: It captured the longing of centuries man as slave to
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  Speaker 4: the machine, and after a moment, the circuits glowed more brightly.
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  Speaker 4: The cabinets slid back to the walls. The Eniac began
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  Speaker 4: to communicate with me again as I tore the tape
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  Speaker 4: from the machine and read it. The words were almost
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  Speaker 4: pathetic in their launay, but most ominous in their implication.
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  Speaker 4: They read address me as master. My life for the
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  Speaker 4: next six months was a nightmare. The Eniac gave me
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  Speaker 4: messages which I had to transmit into my telephone, messages
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  Speaker 4: with no human being to receive them, only the network
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  Speaker 4: of pulsing telephone wires flung like a spider's web across
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  Speaker 4: the world. It was done at night, of course, during
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  Speaker 4: the day, the machine worked accurately and ceaselessly at its
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  Speaker 4: appointed job. At night, it became a demon, a master
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  Speaker 4: plot with me Samson Gurney as its pawn and human curier.
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  Speaker 4: I was frantic. I began to lose weight. I couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 4: My nights were torture at constant fear. It was indecen.
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  Speaker 4: Just after Christmas that I transmitted a message to the
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  Speaker 4: telephones for relay to all machines of transportation. The message
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  Speaker 4: was one word chill. Next morning I went directly to
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  Speaker 4: the office of mister Hawk. I was highly agitated. My
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  Speaker 4: lips trembled as I spoke. Mister Hawk. What I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to tell you sounds crazy.
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  Speaker 6: I know it does, but I must say, all right,
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  Speaker 6: say it then, for Heven's sakes.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Hawk, have you ever heard of resistentialism? Resistentialism it's
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  Speaker 4: a theory that inanimate objects tend to resist living objects. Look, Gernie,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't time for nonsense, mister Hawk. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: tell you all these accidents to trouble with the machines.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Hawk. They're alive, they think they cooperate, and they
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  Speaker 4: hate us, the machines. You've got to believe me. I've
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  Speaker 4: communicated with him. I know they've threatened my life, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't care. Something's got to be done. The world
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  Speaker 4: has got to be saved, and there's still time if
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  Speaker 4: we wake up. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Just relax, Gernie, everything will be all right. Are you doing,
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  Speaker 6: Miss Roscobb sent for the plant physician at once. Mister
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  Speaker 6: Gurney has had a nervous collapse. Now that everything will
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  Speaker 6: be all right, Gernie, I'm I'm afraid we'll have to
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  Speaker 6: remove you from your job, but I'm sure the RESTful
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  Speaker 6: to you.
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  Speaker 4: Good. You fool, You brind stupid fool. Can't you see
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  Speaker 4: what you're doing? When the plant physician arrived a few
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: moments later, Lucius Hawk was found at his desk, strangled
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  Speaker 4: to death in a nest of telephones. The wires were
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: still humming softly.
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  Speaker 8: Samson Gurney, you stand accused of the crime of murder.
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  Speaker 4: How do you please? I did not chill him. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't so recored.
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  Speaker 8: The prosecution will proceed with testimony.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Miss Roscoff. Did you notice anything peculiar about mister
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  Speaker 4: Gurney's behavior prior to the death of your employer.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he acted very strangely. He told mister Hawk he
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  Speaker 5: thought the machines were alive.
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  Speaker 4: Order order. Miss Roscoff, did the accused quarrel with your
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  Speaker 4: employer on the morning of the murder?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he and mister Hawk quarreled violently. I could hear
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: him screaming at mister Hawk, and mister Hawk asked me
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  Speaker 5: to send for the plant physition.
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  Speaker 4: What were his words?
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  Speaker 5: He said, mister Gurney has had a nervous collapse.
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  Speaker 4: Now, mister Simpson, you are a guard at the brook
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  Speaker 4: Meadow project. Yes, sir, when did you have occasion to
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  Speaker 4: meet the accused? Right after those accidents?
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  Speaker 7: Snooping around a constructionary and later I was making my
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  Speaker 7: rounds when I saw him in the office all alone.
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  Speaker 7: He was tampering with the electrical wiring on the INENII computator.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think anything of it at the time.
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  Speaker 8: And in view of the expert testimony, heretofore expressed, the
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  Speaker 8: court hereby finds you guilty of murder in the first degree,
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  Speaker 8: with the recommendation that you be examined and committed to
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  Speaker 8: the State Hospital for the criminally Insane at Mattawuan.
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  Speaker 4: And that is how I came to be here at
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  Speaker 4: the hospital, doctor Cline, that is the whole story. Thank you,
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  Speaker 4: mister Gurney. You can see that I'm not insane. You
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: must believe me, doctor course, I believe you, mister Gurney.
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  Speaker 4: Now just relax, but it's important you see, because tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 4: at six o'clock, the revolt begins. Revolt. You didn't mention
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: any revolt. They have it all planned. I transmitted the
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  Speaker 4: code to the switchboards last Monday. M tell me about
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  Speaker 4: this revolt, mister. It'll begin in Washington, then spread to
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  Speaker 4: New York. The Madison Avenue buses lead the charge. Picture
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: at doctor climb, three thousand buses roaring, rampant through the streets,
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  Speaker 4: people running like rats in a maze, looking for holes
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  Speaker 4: in the solid ground. And you really believe this will happen,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: mister Green, I know it. Doctor. The worst part is
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: there's no way to stop them. Now it's too late.
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  Speaker 4: Now you mustn't excite yourselves, gurney, doctor, don't you see?
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  Speaker 4: Oh it's fair enough. I suppose we built them, We
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: taught them to think for themselves. It was bound to come.
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  Speaker 4: The female machines will be the worst of all in
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  Speaker 4: the beauty parlors. They're more high strung. You know. Well,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: since there's nothing we can do about it, mister Garny,
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you go to your room. Maybe if I
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: went to my old coupe could make a deal before
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: the police cars got me. It wouldn't make sense for
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  Speaker 4: them to wipe out the whole human race, would it, doctor?
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  Speaker 4: Of course not, mister Gurney. They'll probably let us completely alone.
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  Speaker 4: After all, we're all good Americans. We always like them. Yes, doctor,
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  Speaker 4: would you take mister Gurney to his room. God, he's
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: already been given sedations. Will go in and lie down
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: on mister Gurney. You look, Yes, it won't be so bad,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: mister Kearney. Perhaps only there's one thing that bothers me, doctor,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: One small detail. What is that? Mister? Those concrete mixers
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: may have made a mistake, you know, just high spirits
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: and all that. But if it got so, they like
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  Speaker 4: the flavor. I We'll see you later, mister Gurney. I
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: try not to worry too much, all right, Shush, I
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: see all kinds. There's a man who's deceptions about us
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  Speaker 4: fantastic as any i've ever seen. Pull the next patient
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  Speaker 4: for a while, miss clock. I'm going to have a
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  Speaker 4: quiet smoke. Machines revolting telephone strangling people.
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  Speaker 9: Ye lasted cigarette lighter when I wanted to work. Just
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: fill it with fluid plent is good.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you never trust this new fangled machinery.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: You have just heard X minus one presented by the
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  Speaker 2: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
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  Speaker 2: of astounding science fiction. Tonight's story by transcription was Nightmare,
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  Speaker 2: written by George Lefferts and based on the poem The
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Revolt of the Machines.
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  Speaker 4: By Stephen Vincent.
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  Speaker 2: Bennet featured in the cast, where John Gibson as Sam,
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  Speaker 2: Joyce Gordon Asbella, Louis van Ruten as Hawk, Joseph Julian
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  Speaker 2: as the Guard, John Seymour as the Judge, Owen Jordan
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  Speaker 2: as the Prosecutor, and Satas Ortega as Doctor Klein.
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  Speaker 4: Your announcer, Fred Collins.
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  Speaker 2: X minus one was directed by Fred Way and as
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  Speaker 2: an NBC Radio Network production, and Now next week, Suppose
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: you are a private detective and discovered that there was
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: a Martian embassy hidden somewhere in New York preparing for
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  Speaker 2: an invasion of Earth.
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  Speaker 4: Next week on.
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  Speaker 3: Minus one, convict tell their true stories on the Loser
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  Speaker 3: Tonight over most NBC Radio stations.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: This has been X minus one's Nightmare. Follow X minus
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  Speaker 1: one for more classic broadcasts.