A juvenile adventure series created by Robert Hardy Andrews featuring Jack Armstrong, the "All American Boy". Jack sought adventure all over the world with Betty and Billy Fairfield and their Uncle Jim. They flew to distant regions of the globe and plunged headlong into the most thrilling adventures (and some of the most far fetched) ever to grace the 5-to-6pm children's thriller hour.
- 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.