The Line Up · June 26, 1951 · 24 min · 2,519 words
The transcript of “The Mad Bomber (aka-Politician's Home Bombed)”, an episode of The Line Up first broadcast June 26, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Line Up plays The Line Up free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city We're under the cold blaring lights will pass before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer This is the line up you sit right here mr. How many men will we look at?
31 all together. Oh man, probably won't be any of these He's got a car every possible evening. What if you had a last election, Mr. Hunter? Yeah, didn't you spot anybody in the line at all?
No, I didn't copy, man. No, no thanks. Mr. Hunter, I can't think of anybody who'd want to kill him. And you can't remember seeing anybody suspicious hanging around your house? No, no, I can't. Well, none of your neighbors saw anybody either.
Here's a report from the lab. Bomb was a time bomb. Found pieces of an old alarm clock. I'm the size of the explosion must have been about eight or ten sticks of dynamite. Sure, look, you and the family were in the back of the house.
Very lucky. Now we'll do our best to catch whoever was, sir. Probably just a crank. Maybe this one didn't vote for me, lad, the likes of the doctor. Come think of it, maybe. Well, we may want to talk to you again, sir.
Guthrie, I'm both he and his wife. They're in the hospital. They've got a child. A child's all right. a chance. All right. Run to house where Adams and his wife hurt badly. Well I don't know. Ambulance took him away. I'll have to check with the hospital. This is awful.
Everybody should certainly be warned. They will be including the mayor. We'll put a man with you and your family, Mr. Hunter. And meanwhile we'll go and look at Mr. Adams house. The guy who planted the bottom. Oh, let's go talk to him. I go over and talk to Chief Anderson that. See what he's got to say about the damage. Sure.
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