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Dangerous Assignment: Burmese Witnesses

Dangerous Assignment · May 24, 1950 · 29 min · 4,669 words

The transcript of “Burmese Witnesses”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast May 24, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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Wheaties presents Dangerous Assignment. On stage tonight from Hollywood, Dangerous Assignment. Another in the Wheaties big parade of exciting half-hour presentations. Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Dunlevey as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, Danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce.

They all spell the same thing, though, trouble. But when I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize this assignment is going to involve a dead correspondent, a Burmese girl, a trip through the jungle, and a fallen idol.

Good morning, Commissioner. Steve! Last night, an American newspaper correspondent named Kent Jackson was murdered in Rangoon, Burma. You're playing leaves in an hour. I'm flying clear to Burma because a correspondent gets himself killed. Kent Jackson has been posing as a European political refugee.

We think he'd been investigating some sort of political refugee racket. Maybe he was getting too warm. Looks that way. Now we have one lead. A Burmese girl named Lina, who we think witnessed the killing.

Where is this Lina? She's disappeared. Oh, great. The first contact in Rangoon will be chambers at all negation there. He'll fill you in on the background. Get over there, Steve. Find this girl Lina and Sal Kent Jackson's murder.

Well, that's it. You've got your assignment? Good luck. Anybody who knows baseball has played with a bat knows Jackie Robinson is about the hottest thing in the game. And now Jackie has turned actor to play himself in the Jackie Robinson story. It will be turning up at your hometown theater soon planned to

take the kids. And by way of a short postscript of the movie, maybe you would be interested in what Jackie told us about Wheaties. He says, of all of those crisp whole wheat flakes sure helps me get set for the day. Well, that's about it. I think you'll like the Jackie Robinson story and I'm dead sure you'll like Wheaties, breakfast of champions. Try them both. Now,

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