The Man Who Tried to Save Lincoln

The mutual broadcasting system presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cote, and starring tonight, two of Radio's foremost actors, Leon Janney and Ralph Bell, in The Man Who Tried to Save Lincoln.

This is The Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another dream of a realm of a strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and kill you a little.

So settle back, get a good birth on your nerves and be comfortable with you, Chan. As we hear the strange story that I call the man who tried to save Lincoln. February 12th, of course, is Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

And next April 14th is the anniversary of his death at the hands of an assassin. Many people have wondered what would have happened if Lincoln had not died that fight. My story tonight concerns two such people, and it begins in a small laboratory in a college in Pennsylvania.

A heavy-set middle-aged man is tinkering with a maze of electronic apparatus. 1914? 19.13? And in 12, 1911, 1910, 1910, the gauge stops there, there's no penetration. Accumulated tension is too great to overcome unless I use more power.

And if I do, ah, just as I expected the field core blew out. Thirty-nine years penetration and there I stick. Maybe if I get a more powerful tool. Ah, hello, Professor Hodges speaking. Professor Hodges?

Miss Maserkin? Mrs. Erkin? Oh, Professor Hodges, you've forgotten. I have? I've forgotten what, Mrs. Erkin. My tea professor. Oh, it was very naughty of you, but I know how absent my professors are, so I'll forgive you if you'll come right over.