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Execution Awaited

Destination Freedom · October 2, 1949 · 29 min · 4,238 words

The transcript of “Execution Awaited”, an episode of Destination Freedom first broadcast October 2, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Destination Freedom plays Destination Freedom free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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They estimate that with every other heartbeat a murder is committed. A heart has stopped by a killer, but unestimated is the number of hearts attacked and torn. Destination Freedom. Destination Freedom. Prometizations of the great democratic traditions of the Negro people is brought to you by Station WMAQ as a part of the pageant of history and of America's own destination freedom.

It was well said by the late H.G. Wells, there is no more evil thing than race prejudice. It holds more baseness and cruelty than any other error in the world. And for the complete eradication of this evil from American society, and so that man may know it and oppose it for what it is, destination freedom this week brings you its second chapter

of a two-week series bearing directly upon race prejudice, a chapter entitled, Execution awaited. The history of mankind has been in part the history of the overcoming of fear and prejudices. Man has been on this earth for a few thousand years, but within that span he has collected evidence against the forces of nature which he must master, the hurricanes and storm winds,

droughts and famine, disease and disasters which he knew could destroy him. And also in that span, evidence has been collecting against another more insidious enemy, a murderer unmatched. A Trojan horse that has often been indicted, tried, convicted, sentenced, but seldom executed. That enemy are bailiff calls to the witness stand for trial.

The trial will take place not in a public court, although the defendant has been the instigator of many trials in public court. But in your own community, your workshop, your place of business in your home among your family and friends and more so in the secret cells of your subconscious. Wherever we might find you'll notice the

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