Family Theater: The Short Career of Dexter Coles

Finally, theater presents John Charles Thomas, Jack Webb, and William Conrad. The mutual network in cooperation with family theater brings you Jack Webb and William Conrad in the short career of Dexter Coles to introduce the drama your host, John Charles Thomas.

Thank you, Gene Baker. The struggle for political power has had many examples throughout history. Whether the ambitious driver were an emperor or a scheming member of a king's court, The leader of a nation or a rabble-rousing fanatic.

Thus it is been and probably as long as we remain human beings, thus it will continue to be. For the average man's healthy desire for advancement in the world is transformed by a warped mind into an unclean, vicious inhuman struggle that ignores all the average person represents.

Tonight we bring you the story of such a struggle. short career of Dexter Coles. I'm in my office alone. The time has passed midnight, about 12 minutes. There's much time left anymore.

That's why I'm cutting this on the tape recorder instead of writing it out. I hope that afterwards the right person turns the machine on and gets it to the papers. What I did tonight was of my own will.

Was something I owed to a great many people. This began over a year ago. Paul Merrick had been offering me a job and public relations with his machine. I knew I was going to play ball with him only.

I knew that the longer I stalled, the higher he would make his ante. One day when I figured the time was right, I went to Paul Merrick's big office in the Capitol building. He stood up and put out his hand.