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Family Theater: The Pitchfork Experiment

Family Theater · March 26, 1952 · 28 min · 4,778 words

The transcript of “The Pitchfork Experiment”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast March 26, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Family Theatre presents McDonald Carey, Barbara Rush, and Jeffrey Hunter. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents the Pitchfork Experiment, starring McDonald Carey, Jeffrey Hunter, and Barbara Rush. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we're to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families,

and peace for the world. Family Theatre urges you to pray, Pray together as a family. And now to our drama, The Pitchfork Experiment, starring McDonnell Kerry as Lieutenant Howard, Barbara Rush as his sister Dorothy, and Jeffrey Hunter as Hugh.

The story I'm about to tell you is substantially true, but because some of the people concerned with the Pitchfork Experiment are still alive, and because dragging them through the mess again would serve no good purpose, I'll keep the names of people and places fictitious, if you don't mind.

What was the Pitchfork experiment? Well, it was one of the most humiliating experiences I've ever had, and certainly the most humiliating defeat ever suffered by the United States Army. I remember the day it all started.

It was the day I was promoted from 2nd to 1st Lieutenant and given my special orders. Then they go on to say, after securing personnel at Fort Munson, California, you will proceed to the Fort Pitchfork Proving Grounds in California, you will receive further orders.

Can't you find it yet? I don't see it on this map either. Are you sure it's Fort Pitch 4? Yeah, yeah, that's what it says. Oh, listen to this. The tests are to be carried out in complete secrecy, and we cannot sufficiently stress their importance for if the aforementioned beasts of burden.

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