I Was the Duke

From Hollywood, the CBS Radio Workshop. I was the Duke. Duke had to be the baddest one, you know, when I was the Duke. If anybody wanted to get in the gang and they thought they could whip me, then they could be Duke, see?

CBS Radio presents the CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theatre of the mind. William Keneally speaking, you're about to hear an experiment in communication. communication between a juvenile delinquent and you. The experiment? Your reaction. Unless you are a law enforcement officer, a social worker, or a criminal yourself, your knowledge of crime is pretty much limited to what you read in the newspapers. And with each new

outburst of hoodlumism, each new outrage against public decency, you the law abiding citizen, probably cluck in dismay, murmured that something should be done about it and turned to the the sports or the society page. We, too, think something should be done about it, and perhaps the first thing might be for the law-abiding citizen to meet the criminal. Only chances

are he wouldn't talk to you. He couldn't talk to you because you don't talk the same language and because he doesn't trust you. But he'll talk to another criminal. He'll relax with a fellow ex-con, he has, in which we're about to hear, the boy we call Bobby alias the Duke and the man who interviews him are friends. They serve time together in

San Quentin Penitentiary, the interviewer for forgery, Bobby for Grand Theft Auto, for obvious reasons their real identities are withheld, but their words come to you with their full knowledge and consent, because you see, they too think something should be done about it, especially Bobby, alias the Duke, who at the age of 23 has already served ten years of his