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Eyewitness

Suspense · December 16, 1956 · 29 min · 4,664 words

The transcript of “Eyewitness”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast December 16, 1956. 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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Sauspents and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills the master of mystery and adventure William and Robeson what you're about to hear is more than the lurid figments of this writer's imagination It has happened in the prisons of Michigan and New Jersey Massachusetts and Colorado and elsewhere When desperate men oppressed beyond endurance turn upon their tormentors

Not a prison break, not a prison riot, but a prison mutiny. Listen now, as Howard Duff stars in eyewitness, a tale well calculated to keep you in... SUS-BENS! All you want is the background for an article on the state's prison.

The managing editor has assigned you because you've never been inside a penitentiary before. Fresh point of view and so on. But you get the distinct feeling that you're an unwelcome visitor here. The warden makes one thing plain.

Of course, anything you may write about the institution will have to be cleared through me. And outside the main gates, your guide, the capital of the yard, comes up with a charming thought. Inside there, you may see somebody you know, or there may be somebody who knows you.

They may try to speak to you. If they do, don't answer them. And don't speak to anyone. Don't give anything. Don't take anything. Everybody's better off that way. Well, I don't want to see him facetious, but I doubt if any friends of mine are in there.

Mr. Kelly, you never know. And as the guard turns the key, you step inside the prison to feel that you are a prisoner. You feel you will never walk back through that door alive. The door opens, and you are inside.

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