Daybreak: The Great American Western
Still broadcasting from Irving, Texas, Daybreak saddles up for a ride through the golden age of the American Western.
Today we return to the wide-open country of radio, where you didn’t need Monument Valley or a Technicolor sunset to see the West. All it took was the sound of a horse approaching, boots on a wooden boardwalk, a saloon door swinging open—and an imagination.
At the center of our journey is Gunsmoke, radio’s remarkably grown-up portrait of Dodge City, with William Conrad’s Matt Dillon confronting questions of justice, violence, mercy and the difficult business of building…
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