GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1762
Voice: “There he goes, Tennessee, get him. [Sound of a gunshot] Got him, dead center.”
Announcer: “That’s Jed Sloan, Tennessee Jed, deadliest man ever to ride the western plains. Brought to you transcribed by the makers of Tip Top Bread.”
(a typical opening for “Tennessee Jed,” an adventure program on radio, ABC, May 14 to Oct. 7, 1947)
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