• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police

Broadcast History: 1937 to 1938

This adventure series, written by Virginia Cooke, featured Speed Gibson, a fifteen-year-old pilot, whose quest was to capture the master criminal “The Octopus” and his ruthless gang of henchmen. Clint Barlow was Speed’s uncle, an agent of the International Secret Police. Together they flew all over the world in their airship, the “Flying China Clipper”, trying to apprehend the arch villain.

391118 151 SearchOfHQStarted
 2.89 MB

391125 152 SavedFromSuffocating
 2.89 MB

391202 153 LeavingForGorillaCountry
 3.32 MB

391209 154 TheOctopusPreparesDeathRay
 2.41 MB

391216 155 TheOctopusOverheardOnTheRadio
 3.3 MB

391223 156 ElephantGrassFire
 3.3 MB

391230 157 AJungleCrashLanding
 3.28 MB

400106 158 SurpriseMeetingWithNatives
 3.28 MB

400113 159 BarneyConfrontedTalkingGorilla
 3.27 MB

400120 160 TalkingGorillaStartsAttack
 2.54 MB

400127 161 EntireCampCaptured
 2.97 MB

400203 162 OctopusPacksDeathRayMachine
 3.02 MB

400210 163 EveryoneEscapesGorillaAttack
 3.29 MB

400217 164 AllAreCaughtInJungleStorm
 3.27 MB

400224 165 JohnBuchananFoundInHut
 3.29 MB

400302 166 SurroundedByPygmyHeadhunters
 2.41 MB

400309 167 SafeTake-off
 3.31 MB

400316 168 SpeedMissingAgain
 3.27 MB

400323 169 TheOctopusWaits
 3.23 MB

400330 170 CarCrash
 3.25 MB

400406 171 OctopusGangMemberIsQuestioned
 3.3 MB

400413 172 ClintWorriesAboutLanding
 2.62 MB

400420 173 Clint'sPlaneCatchesOnFire
 3.27 MB

400427 174 AnOctopusAgentConfessesToFire
 3.29 MB

400504 175 DesertRaidersAttack
 3.27 MB

400511 176 OctopusCampIsReached
 3.29 MB

400518 177 DeathRayBlownUp
 3.26 MB

400525 178 THE OCTOPUS FINALLY CAPTURED
 2.58 MB

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