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Zero Hour

Suspense · May 18, 1958 · 24 min · 3,252 words

The transcript of “Zero Hour”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast May 18, 1958. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Thus spends. And the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. All the tender platitudes about the innocence of childhood are uttered by grown-ups. As any realistically-observant parent can tell you, small children are thieves, liars, and potential murderers.

And no grown-up can hope to understand the savage jungle in which the little one struggles to exist. There is no line of communication. Words are useless. Only with love, discipline, and luck can the helpless parent hope to lead the bewildered child toward the grown-up world where things are not always what they seem.

But what if the parents were to be denied that opportunity? What if the innocent little children were to take over the world at five o'clock some quiet summer afternoon? Listen, Evelyn Rudy Starr is in Ray Bradbury's chilling story of childhood, zero hour, which begins in just a moment.

In what form can an act of military heroism be acknowledged? In one example, the form is a rectangular blue ribbon sat in a gold-colored metal frame of laurel leaves, worn, centered over the right breast pocket of the uniform.

A bronze oak leaf cluster may be affixed to the ribbon for each subsequent award of the same decoration. This is the emblem of the Distinguished Unit Citation, awarded to units of our armed forces and those of our allies for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy.

One of America's newer military decorations, it is designated to recognize activity on or after December 7, 1941. The distinguished unit campaign streamer is blue, with the name of the sighted action embroidered in white. To be eligible for this citation, the degree of heroism required is the same as that which, in an individual, would warrant the presentation

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