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Five Buck Tip [episode 739], Broadcast 2/23/1958 · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Suspense and the producer of radios of standing theater of thrills,
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  Speaker 1: the master of mystery and adventure William N. Robeson.
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  Speaker 2: Am I my Brother's Keeper has often been the agonized
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  Speaker 2: cry of mankind when the troubles of his fellows have
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  Speaker 2: been heaped upon his shoulders. Our story tells of a
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  Speaker 2: man who is not his brother's keeper, but who is
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  Speaker 2: designed to be his brother's corpse, and it requires one
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  Speaker 2: actor to play identical twins. Now, dual identity roles are
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  Speaker 2: difficult enough in the visual medium, but they can be
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  Speaker 2: solved by technical tricks. In radio, they depend completely on
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  Speaker 2: the vocal skill of the actor. That is why we
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  Speaker 2: have asked one of radio's finest actors, mister Carl Swenson,
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  Speaker 2: to complete this assignment. Listen, listen then as mister Swinson
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  Speaker 2: stars in the five Buck Tip, which begins in exactly
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  Speaker 2: one minute.
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  Speaker 3: Another visit it with Joe and Daphne Foresight. Joe, Yeah, Daphney,
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  Speaker 3: do you think I should.
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  Speaker 4: Go on a diet?
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  Speaker 3: No, but I'm adding weight only.
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  Speaker 5: In the right places.
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  Speaker 3: Flatterer. Seriously, if I put on any more pound, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be out of style.
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  Speaker 6: What style? The current one?
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  Speaker 3: It calls for that slim.
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  Speaker 5: Sheep, look the beanpole. Look you mean or I don't
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  Speaker 5: get it. Here we are citizens of the healthiest country
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  Speaker 5: on earth, with hundreds of different kinds of good food.
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  Speaker 5: And what are Americans doing. They're starving themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's fashionable.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want you to lose interest in my figure.
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  Speaker 5: Don't worry. I won't say speaking of that, Look at this.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a figure with real interest. Oh, forty five billion dollars.
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  Speaker 5: It says here in the paper that the investment in
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  Speaker 5: the United States savings bonds has reached more than forty
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  Speaker 5: five billion. What do you think of that figure?
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 5: And just think every three dollars invested in bonds pays back.
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  Speaker 5: That's real interest for you, I know.
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  Speaker 3: And every saving's bond is guaranteed by the government. Right, Oh, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: I wish you cared about my figure the way you
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  Speaker 3: do about those bonds you buy every pay day.
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  Speaker 5: Honey, I've got great interest in both.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you just see that you stay that way.
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  Speaker 6: And now.
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  Speaker 1: Five buck tip starring Carl Swanson, a tale well calculated
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  Speaker 1: to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 4: I had flown all away from Cleveland to be with
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  Speaker 4: my brother on his last night, and there was no
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  Speaker 4: joy ride. His picture was on page one of the
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  Speaker 4: Tribune under a big black headline, Governor denies appeal Jardine
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  Speaker 4: to die tonight on the plane, they all looked at
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  Speaker 4: me like I'd broken out of death row. I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: blame them. Tommy Jardine was not only my brother, who
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  Speaker 4: was my identical twin. At midnight, he'd begun this black shadow,
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  Speaker 4: this evil image of me that had forced me to
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  Speaker 4: run away and change my name so I could make
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  Speaker 4: an honest living Jackie Kavanaugh, his girl would begged me
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  Speaker 4: to come on, and after all, I felt I owed
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  Speaker 4: him this last night, just for the relief I would know.
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  Speaker 3: Afterward.
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  Speaker 4: I found the Blue Hour, a quiet little bistro where
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  Speaker 4: she'd asked me to meet her.
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  Speaker 3: Stopped at the check stand. Leave my hat and suitcase,
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  Speaker 3: one hat, one bag, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Do something for me. Will you don't let me leave
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  Speaker 4: without them? I do that all the.
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  Speaker 3: Time, Yes, sir, I'll remember. Hey, you know you look
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  Speaker 3: like that? Yeah, I know who I look like. I'm
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  Speaker 3: supposed to meet him as Kavanaugh here, Yes, sir, in
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  Speaker 3: the corner booth, Redcot. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I fumbled my pocket for something to help his memory,
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  Speaker 4: found a bill and laid it on the counter. Think
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  Speaker 4: it was a single known until later it wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: It was a five.
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  Speaker 4: All things considered, it was the best five dollars I
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  Speaker 4: ever spent. Jackie Kavanaugh was staring into her scotch, looking
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  Speaker 4: very lonely, and she had reason to She'd been in
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  Speaker 4: love with Tommy for as long as I could remember.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down, Mark, Thanks, What time will we do over there?
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  Speaker 3: Eight thirty? No visitors until late thirty.
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  Speaker 6: The warden's a bearcat for rules.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking more like Tommy every day, Mark. There's nothing
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  Speaker 3: I can do about that.
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  Speaker 7: Try to be kind to him on his last night,
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  Speaker 7: will you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll try. I had a double scotch and then
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  Speaker 4: another one, and we sat there for a half hour
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  Speaker 4: with Tommy's picture staring at us out of page one.
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  Speaker 4: Then we slipped out a side door and caught a
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  Speaker 4: cab for the prison. The warden was a thin faced,
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  Speaker 4: white haired man with a tired, worried look in his eyes.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like you both to know you're legally entitled it
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  Speaker 4: visit Tommy Jardine tonight. But I must also make clear
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  Speaker 4: I don't approve of it.
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  Speaker 7: Why not?
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  Speaker 8: He's facing the greatest trial a man can be put to.
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  Speaker 8: He can do it best alone. He's called pest Perry's priest.
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  Speaker 8: Two of them are down there now. But if you
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  Speaker 8: insist on seeing him, he'll have to decide now and
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  Speaker 8: five minutes the main gates will be locked until after
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  Speaker 8: the execution.
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  Speaker 3: Mark, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think I'll stay here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I thought so did I, but I just can't
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  Speaker 3: bear to go through with it. I understand, all right, Warden,
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  Speaker 3: I'll se him alone.
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  Speaker 6: So you are the twin brother?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: How come your name is different?
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  Speaker 3: I changed it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't blame you. It's funny. Up to now we
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  Speaker 6: didn't believe he had a twin brother, but it was
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  Speaker 6: all part of the act.
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  Speaker 3: What act?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know it's against the law to execute an
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  Speaker 6: insane man. You mean Tommy is crazy as a coat,
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  Speaker 6: or at least that's what he'd like us to think.
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  Speaker 6: It's turned into an endurance contest. Three days and nights
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  Speaker 6: without a letter, and you know what it'll led up to,
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  Speaker 6: don't you. He'll go to the chair sound and saying,
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  Speaker 6: and we'll go to the nuthouse there. Excuse me, father,
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  Speaker 6: you got company Jardine.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Tommy, huh.
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  Speaker 6: What do you know?
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  Speaker 3: So you head the nerve to come?
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  Speaker 9: After all?
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  Speaker 6: Padre, shake hands with my brother. I'll be back in
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  Speaker 6: fifteen minutes. Mister Heston, Hey, listen, I made you idiot.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Heston, Mark Heston.
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  Speaker 6: Shut up? Look do I have to die to prove it? Podra?
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  Speaker 6: How can I convince him?
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  Speaker 10: What can I do? I'm not.
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  Speaker 6: Sure what I mean. Mister Heston's been going on like
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  Speaker 6: this day and I having us nuts.
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  Speaker 9: You'll be all right. Funny seems to come over maybe
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  Speaker 9: so often, perfectly rational one minute and.
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  Speaker 6: Then yeah, fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Minutes Tommy, Tommy, huh, what what happened? Did I do
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  Speaker 3: it again? Yes, sir, you said you will, Mark, just
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  Speaker 3: like before.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Mike, uh, I'm sorry, Mark, I don't know why
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  Speaker 4: I I.
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  Speaker 3: We understand, don't we? Miton? Sure? Is there anything I
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  Speaker 3: can do for you?
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  Speaker 9: Tommy? Afterwards? Well, he does have some personal affairs to
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  Speaker 9: clean up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've believing some cash for one thing, and a
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  Speaker 4: safe deposit box in Detroit, and there's a car and
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  Speaker 4: some personal stuff that'll all go to Jackie. I took
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  Speaker 4: a pencil out of my pocket and looked around for
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  Speaker 4: something to write on. Sticking out from under the Bible
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  Speaker 4: on the table was a blank card, so I picked
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  Speaker 4: it up and turned it over idly as I waited.
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  Speaker 3: For Tommy to go on.
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  Speaker 4: There was printing on the back that said fingerprint Record
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  Speaker 4: State Penitentiary, and it had Tommy's picture and history, but
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  Speaker 4: the spaces for the fingerprints were blank.
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  Speaker 3: Then they jumped me.
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  Speaker 9: I got him, Tommy the arms, Mike, get his arms,
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  Speaker 9: got him, get the needle inside the book?
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  Speaker 6: Pages cut out?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, hold on a stone.
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  Speaker 6: Now come on, come on, John Dene, wake up. I
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  Speaker 6: snap out of the punk. I get the leg out
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  Speaker 6: from under you. That's a boy, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, wait, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: What is this?
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  Speaker 6: Look Jardine? When you save the act for the newspaper boys.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not Jardine. I'm Heston.
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  Speaker 6: I'm mauling Monroe.
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  Speaker 3: Hey wait listen, Oh you.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, Jardine. I'm fed up with this act. You either
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  Speaker 6: play ball or job or no job. I kick your
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  Speaker 6: teeth and let go on me.
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  Speaker 1: Man, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: I'm slitting your trouser leg because that's where we fasten
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  Speaker 6: the electrode. It's ten after eleven. In less than an hour.
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  Speaker 6: You go to the chair.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment we continue with the second act of suspense.
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  Speaker 7: The Navy and Marine Corps have a special Manila Bay
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  Speaker 7: The Army has its Mexican Service Medal for those in
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  Speaker 7: any of several expeditions or engagements from April twelfth, nineteen eleven,
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  Speaker 7: through June sixteenth, nineteen nineteen. There is also the Army
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  Speaker 1: And now starting Carl Swinson, Act two of five buck.
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  Speaker 4: Tips, Slowly, one by one the facts came into focus.
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  Speaker 4: I was in cell for a death row in Tommy's
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  Speaker 4: prison uniform. The guard was shaving my leg because in
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  Speaker 4: less than an hour I was going to the chair
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  Speaker 4: in my twin brother's place.
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  Speaker 6: Oh still not Jardine.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not Jardine. I tell you I'm Mark Heston.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get that through your thick skull, and then bring
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  Speaker 4: the warden here.
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  Speaker 6: You'll see the warden in forty five minutes. Hello, says
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  Speaker 6: he's got to be there when they pull a switch.
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  Speaker 3: Look do you see this on my arm here?
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  Speaker 6: What about it?
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  Speaker 4: That is a mark from a hypodermic needle. That was
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  Speaker 4: why I was asleep. Jes the padre. Do you remember him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's a phony. His name is Mike and he's a
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  Speaker 4: friend of Tommy's. And he had the needle inside the
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  Speaker 4: Bible that he was carrying. And they hit me right
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  Speaker 4: after you left. Now, I know it sounds crazy, but
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  Speaker 4: they pulled it off.
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  Speaker 6: They should have known better to try a wild thing
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  Speaker 6: like that, now, shouldn't they?
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  Speaker 4: If you don't believe me, this mark on my arm, now, look,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta believe that.
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  Speaker 6: I believe, but I believe it. You showed it to
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  Speaker 6: me yesterday. I wasn't here yesterday. Listen to me.
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  Speaker 3: That was part of the build up. Can't you see that,
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  Speaker 3: like the.
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  Speaker 4: Insanity Act and everything else?
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  Speaker 6: Listen to me, yes, stupid jerk. The rule book says
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  Speaker 6: we don't rough up the customers, Jardine, However, in your case,
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna make an exception. Please believe me.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Heston, Mark Heston. I've got an apartment
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  Speaker 4: on Riverdale Avenue in Cleveland. I worked for the Ohio
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  Speaker 4: Indemnity Company.
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  Speaker 6: I christ said I had enough talk. We went through
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  Speaker 6: that yesterday too.
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  Speaker 4: I wait, one more thing. You picked me up at
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  Speaker 4: the warden's office tonight. Do you remember Tommy wouldn't know
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  Speaker 4: what we talked about about my name. First, you asked
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  Speaker 4: me why it was heston, why it was different than
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  Speaker 4: about Tommy's act.
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  Speaker 6: And Joe, you pumped your brother about that stuff while
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  Speaker 6: he was here. He told me when he left with
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  Speaker 6: the pottery.
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  Speaker 3: All right, put on a check. Get the warden.
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  Speaker 6: Give me that check.
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  Speaker 3: Get the warden.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Johnny, I'll get the warden.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I gotta get her ound of here.
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  Speaker 6: She's going to place.
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  Speaker 8: Can't you see that I made that clarity in, mister Asten.
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  Speaker 8: The main gates locked until after the execuse regulations.
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  Speaker 6: Can't go.
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  Speaker 8: I can't stay your only kill Let me out, please,
• 14:34
  Speaker 8: all right, I'll fall again.
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  Speaker 6: Come in. What can I talk you for a minute?
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  Speaker 3: What is it, Bud?
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: I can't handle John Deine?
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  Speaker 8: All right, excuse me a minty place, darny, shut up.
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  Speaker 10: I got a feeling we're not gonna make If you're
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  Speaker 10: doing great, we'll be out of here in five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: What are they talking about?
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  Speaker 3: What's he telling the woods?
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  Speaker 6: Get up? Can I go now? Warden?
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid you too will have to stay here in
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  Speaker 8: the office for a few minutes. I may need you.
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  Speaker 4: Well let's see now, I got off the plane at
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  Speaker 4: the airport and took a cab to a bar called
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  Speaker 4: a Blue Hour.
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  Speaker 3: She said she'd be waiting there for me.
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  Speaker 8: Jardine, listen to him.
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  Speaker 4: Don't call me Jardine.
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  Speaker 9: I'm Mark Heston.
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  Speaker 8: There's only a half hour ago coming. This won't do
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  Speaker 8: you any good.
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  Speaker 4: Warden, Please listen to me. He has been planning this
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  Speaker 4: for weeks. The girl too, and that phony padre. They
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  Speaker 4: had it all worked out right down to the pinprick
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  Speaker 4: in his arm. Now, please just let me talk to them.
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  Speaker 4: Give me two minutes with him. That's not must ask,
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  Speaker 4: is it.
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  Speaker 3: The girl couldn't take it.
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  Speaker 4: That's an act.
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  Speaker 6: Can't you see that?
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  Speaker 9: It's an act?
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  Speaker 8: Louis there, mister Hesson and missus Kavanaugh are waiting in
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  Speaker 8: my office.
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  Speaker 3: Bring them down here.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, what about Mike, Mike, that phony padre he left.
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  Speaker 8: He said he couldn't do anything more for you said
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  Speaker 8: it was up to the prison. Chaplain, now, chaplain, Warden, cancel, Tommy,
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  Speaker 8: listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm me Tommy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not Donny.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Mark Heston.
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  Speaker 1: In just a moment, we continue with the third act
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  Speaker 1: of suspense.
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  Speaker 9: We have together Ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom.
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  Speaker 9: This is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The fifteen
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  Speaker 9: nations comprising the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have reaffirmed their
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  Speaker 9: faith in the aims of the United Nations. They have
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  Speaker 9: reaffirmed a desire to live in peace with all people,
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  Speaker 9: all governments. NATO is a framework within which some member
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  Speaker 9: nations can cooperate in every way to achieve peace and
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  Speaker 9: freedom for the world in our time. The United States
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  Speaker 9: of America is a part of NATO. You should be
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  Speaker 9: aware of and alert to the objectives and programs of
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  Speaker 9: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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  Speaker 6: And now.
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  Speaker 1: Starring Carl Swanson, Act three of five, Buck Tip.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry Toorry.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Jackie.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to realize what you'll be doing. If
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  Speaker 4: you keep online. You'll be killing me. You'll be killing
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  Speaker 4: an innocent man, just like shooting him.
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  Speaker 3: With a gun.
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  Speaker 4: It's murdered and they're going to find out sooner or later.
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  Speaker 4: I just told the warden how we met at the
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  Speaker 4: Blue Hour. You were wearing that red coat so I
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  Speaker 4: could find you waiting for me in the corner booth.
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  Speaker 2: Blue.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you remember that, don't you, Jackie?
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  Speaker 10: The a bar on North Lake Street the Blue hour.
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  Speaker 8: They'll tell you that I was there, my job to
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  Speaker 8: give you every reasonable consideration, Tommy.
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  Speaker 3: But there are limits limits.
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  Speaker 6: This is the limit.
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  Speaker 4: This is ridiculous. What about the fingerprints? You have his
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  Speaker 4: fingerprints here on file, right here in the prison.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you?
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  Speaker 4: I remember then, the blank fingerprint cards sticking out from
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  Speaker 4: under the Bible. There was a faint smudge of ink
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  Speaker 4: on my fingertips. They had thought of everything. I thought
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  Speaker 4: it might come to this, Tommy. We stopped at Files
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  Speaker 4: on the way down and picked up your card.
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  Speaker 6: Give me your.
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  Speaker 8: Hand, warden. I forgot to tell you something. Give me
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  Speaker 8: the ink, bad, Louis, wouldn't. I hope this will settle
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  Speaker 8: it once.
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  Speaker 3: And will settle anything. I looked at Tommy while they
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  Speaker 3: took my prince.
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  Speaker 4: The corner of his mouth was twitching again, but he
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: didn't dare look me in the eye.
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  Speaker 8: Well there you are, Jardine.
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  Speaker 3: They matched perfectly.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Well, of course they matched their my prints on the card.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: My brother and that phony priest took them while I
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: was unconscious and switched cards in the files.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: Come on, Louis, yes, Tommy, it's twenty minutes to twelve.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Prison chaplain will be here in five minutes if you
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: want him.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Wait, don't you walk out on me.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I am Mark Heston.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: I tell you there was a switch. Look look at him.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Can't you see it?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: You've got the wrong man, the wrong man. It was
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: my last faint hope, and all that was left was
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: the horrible, unbelievable truth.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: They were going to do it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: They were actually going to execute me. The lights dimmed,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: then brightened, and then dimmed again, and from down the
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: corridor behind the door came a faint whine. With fifteen
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: minutes to go, they were testing the chair. Fifteen minutes,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: the prison chaplain came in. I had nothing more to say,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: nothing anyone would believe, So I told him to go away.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Then Lewie came back with a couple of assistants and.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: They shaved my head. Eight minutes, seven six.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: A kind of paralysis took me. I could hardly stand up,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I could hardly breathe. Three minutes the chaplain came back again,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: in more guards. Finally the door to the block open
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: and the warden walked toward my cell. The hands on the
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: clock over the door were almost straight up. The time
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: had come. The Warden moved slowly through the crowd of witnesses,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: white faced and shaken.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: He took my arm.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Come on, Mark, okay, there's nothing left to wait. You
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: called me Mark, Sit down, Mark. Where are my brother
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: and the girl?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: They're holding them downstairs?
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: There he is Warden. Name is Willie. Thank you, sir, Oh,
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: mister Heston. I know it sounds kind of stupid.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: To say, I'm sorry, but no, no, forget it, Lois.
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: Facts are you probably don't remember me, mister, but sure
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: you're the.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: The hat kid at the Blue Hour.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: I was reaching for the phone to call the gates
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: or your brother and the girl could leave. When it rang,
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: they were calling about Willy here. He was at the
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: gate trying to get in.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Well, Willie, how did you?
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: I waited till the taxi came back, and I asked
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: the driver where you went?
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Why you left your hat and bag? Why did you
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: bring him here?
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: Well?
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: I didn't know what was in the bag, but I
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: knew it must be awful important. You told me not
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: to let you leave without them. Well I might have
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: let it go, but after all, mister, you left me
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: a five buck tip.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Suspense in which Carl Swinson starred in William N. Robeson's
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: production of Five Buck Tip by Harold Swanton. Supporting mister
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Swinson in Five Buck Tip were Kathy Lewis, Henry Blair,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Jack Krushin, Jerome thor and Ken Christy. Listen again next
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: week when we returned with another tale well calculated to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 6: Suspense has been brought to you through the worldwide facilities
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  Speaker 6: of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service,