The Three Gangsters Don Morrisey aka-The Biggest Catch

The big story. Hey, mister. Yeah? How do we get on the road to Racine? Keep straight on this road for about a half mile. There's a stoplight there. Take the right hand turn. That'll bring you right on to the turn fight.

Sounds kind of complicated, doesn't it, boys? Yeah, sure, Doug. Why, no, it's very simple. The way you think it's complicated. Suppose you get in the car and show us the wave on. Oh, wait a minute.

How do you know my name? Get in the car. No, look, cheer. Get in the car, Vaughn. Come on, get in before I blow your head off. The big story. The story you're about to hear actually happened.

It happened in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. It's authentic, and it's offered as a tribute to the men and women of the great American newspapers. From the front pages of the Elkhorn Independent, the story of a cub reporter who used a fish story to make the biggest catch of his career in the world of crime.

Elkhorn, Wisconsin, the story is it actually happened? Don Morrissey's story as he lived it. You're just a kid Don Morrissey, but you've got a dream. And that dream is to be a newspaper reporter. Elkhorn is your hometown, but it so happens that you're a junior studying journalism at Marquette University.

At the beginning of this particular summer, you're doing part-time work as correspondent for the UP and AP in your hometown. But you've got your eye on the future, Don Morrissey. And one day in late June, you walk up to the editor of the Elkhorn Independent a week later.

Mr. Merritt, I wonder if I could talk you for just a minute. Make it just a minute, Don. Got a paper to get out here. We go to press tomorrow. Yes, sir, I know. What's on your mind?