Big Girl Lost
Gunsmoke · September 21, 1958 · 20 min · 2,278 words
The transcript of “Big Girl Lost”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast September 21, 1958. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gunsmoke plays Gunsmoke free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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At the rock, Governor Forbes has returned from a weekend of rest in the country, and he told reporters that the next step toward resolving the crisis over the integration of schools in Arkansas's capital is up to the federal government.
By the governor's order, the city's four high schools will not open tomorrow, and one report unconfirmed has it that the Justice Department will take the first step in the morning to challenge the legality of the governor's move to sidestep compliance with the Supreme Court order for an immediate resumption of integrated classes at Central High School.
The Air Force is still officially silent on the performance of the Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile it launched during the night from Cape Canaveral. But the unofficial word is that the test was the third in a row to be judged totally successful with the nose cone coming down on a target 3,000 miles away.
Now the word is the Atlas will get its first all-out test in a few weeks when it will be aimed at a target more than 6,000 miles distant. Chicago comes word of the arrest of a man who might be the country's oldest active burglar.
His name is Ernest Ruhler and his age is 78. It took three men to subdue him when he was found prowling today in the Chicago home and he told the police, I was just doing what I know best.
I can't break the habit. And I'll award from Chevrolet. This is Art Baker speaking for Chevrolet in behalf of your local operi Chevrolet dealer. who invites you to come in and take a look at the only all-new car in the low-priced field, Chevrolet.
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