The RUSC Old Time Radio Parade!

Over the next week, Joy and I will be featuring our own little old time radio parade, with a show every day on RUSC in the run up to one of the most important days in the history of America, our day of Independence.

The first of these 4th July shows is titled The Longest Hour, and is brought to you by the Family Theater. It's a fine, patriotic 4th of July drama! 

The show stars Loretta Young, Gene Lockhart, and Robert Stack, and the story begins on the night of July 1st, 1776. 

In a small, stuffy anteroom of the Pennsylvania State House, at Philadelphia, five weary men, working by candlelight, are gathered about a writing desk littered with crumpled sheets of paper. 

They're tired, their nerves are on edge and their patience is at the breaking point. John Adams addresses the men, feeling that he needs to again explain the brutal truth. 

The men are struggling to draft the wording of the Declaration of Independence, with the founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman, haggling over the wording of the document which none of them dared to hope would hold any claim to permanence, much less to immortality. 

However, no two of the five committee members are in agreement, never mind all five...

Happy listening my friends,

P.S.  Look out for the next instalment in the RUSC old time radio parade tomorrow!