Interview 71-02-09 Russell Thorson

This is Paul Karate, thanks for coming to present, I love a mystery and I love it. This is February 1971 and this is the day of the earthquake here in Los Angeles and also the touchdown of the astronauts on their third moonwalk.

This is Gary Williams sitting in the home of Mr. Russell Thorson, better known as Jack Packard, not better known but also known as Jack Packard on the Isle of a Mystery Radio series. Hello Russ. Oh, I have Gary. Real fine. I'm real glad to be talking with you today. It's quite a day, isn't it? Oh, God, this is a day and I have. Just a moment ago

before we turned the tape on, we felt the last rumble of a lot of rumbles today. We both got really shook up at 6 a.m. Russ here lives in Studio City way up on the mountaintop and I'm out in Van Nuys. And so we had an appointment to sit down and talk on tape today and through earthquakes and wind and rain the show must go on. How's

everything going Russ? Well fine I must confess I'm a little shook up today because this is not there's got to be a better way of starting the day than having an earthquake you know to wake you up. Yeah you suggested that I I shouldn't bring my birthday in with such a big bang in celebration. I want to sort of ask you

some questions about the old days of radio. I love a mystery is my very favorite at a radio show among the many great radio shows of yesterday year dramatic type that I collect on tape now. Of course they've been off the air for 15 or 20 years but few collectors like myself have dug up thousands of these shows through a lot of hard effort and hard