Lear Radio Show Old Time Radio Show MP3 CD 10 Episodes

This topical, issues-oriented show lasted for just over a year, running from September 16, 1945 to October 6, 1946. In the show, sponsored by Lear, maker of radios for aviation and the home, Welles expounded on topics both topical and general. Each episode lasted 15 minutes with one sponsor break. In the first episode, for example, Welles discussed bullfighting, political predictions, and responded to a listener who was taking him to task on his foreign policy stance. Later topics turned to such topics as the Office of Price Administration and nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll. The show eventually became more political in tone, and its high point of notoriety came in July of 1946, when Welles began a series of programs dedicated to the case of Isaac Woodard, an African-American World War II veteran. In February 1946, Woodard, returning home to his family, was beaten in a bus station by a South Carolina policeman so badly that he was blinded. Woodard's case was brought to Welles' attenti