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The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln

Suspense · February 11, 1962 · 23 min · 3,051 words

The transcript of “The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast February 11, 1962. 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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And now, a tale well calculated to keep you in, sauce-spence. 97 years ago, Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, died slain by the bullet to the actor John Wiltsman. Many historians feel that if Lincoln had lived, our history and world history would have been profoundly changed for the better.

With this in mind, we bring you now a strange and unusual drama, the man who went back to Save Lincoln. This first portion of suspense is brought to you by Alpine Cigarettes. In a moment, act one of the man who went back to Save Lincoln, starring Court Benson as Tom and Ian Martin as the Professor, and written especially for suspense by Robert Arthur.

What's it like to smoke an Alpine? it's like many fresh little things that please you. It's like the stirring of leaves when a breeze comes up, like a weather vane turning in a summer sky, the way the air feels in the morning when you open the door to get the paper. That's what it's like to smoke an alpine. Alpine is nothing

at all like the sort of smoking you may be used to. Alpine is a fresh, free-healing kind of smoke, A bright, bracing, even invigorating kind of taste, pack after pack. If this sounds good to you, try Alpine.

There's something more to smoking with an Alpine. Cigarette! And now Tom, give me the readings and that gauge, please. It's calibrated in years. In years, right. It says 1914 now.

1913. 1912, 1911, 1910, 1910. It stopped moving. Your cumulative tension is too great to overcome, but I'll try greater power. That's what I was afraid of. Field coil blew out. But at least I had it a couple of years.

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