The Whistler · February 25, 1948 · 29 min · 3,942 words
The transcript of “Meeting on Tenth Street”, an episode of The Whistler first broadcast February 25, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Whistler plays The Whistler free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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And now the Whistler Strange story. Meeting on 10th Street. On February 25th the final edition of the Daily Bulletin was a sellout ten minutes after it hit the street. Across the top of the page, headlines screened that the District Attorney's Office had at last one its long fight against the city's organized crime.
But the real drama was below neatly centered on the page in an article by Stephen North the bulletin star reporter an article titled retraction. In 25 years in the newspaper game this reporter has never before been forced to print a retraction. Today I break that record. Last week I called a man a weakling in
a coward. I vilified him, told him he'd failed me. I said these things not knowing he had already made up his mind to tackle a tremendous task. I said them not knowing that Gerald Wright, an ordinary citizen of this city, intended to challenge Gangnam's most vicious killers alone. Now I want to correct the injustice. The story of Gerald
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