Ambition Perilous
Broadcast: September 3, 1945
Added: Sep 16 2017
Ambition is very powerful stimulant, a powerful urge driving men upward toward better things - unless of course it's so strong that it drives them onto evil things. That's the aspect that Fred Conrad forgot about. He was ambitious - very much so - and his great hopes had carried him far. He was the most popular district attorney in a long time, and now he had his eye on the governors chair. His prospects looked good for the coming election, until his campaign manager came up with an idea that he should employ a recently released con, who he'd helped send to jail...