The Coffin Cure

This is Nightline, your tieline to the world, and this is Walter O'Keefe. Tonight, a visit to worlds strangely different from ours, the world of the future. The world of X minus 1. Now, here is the future. X minus 1.

Countdown for blast off. X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown, tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future,

adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy's Science Fiction Magazine presents... The coffin cure by Alan Norse, but first, hear this.

The scene of America's first Thanksgiving celebration. The top Big Ten football game of the day. One of the most unusual excursions on which a radio audience has ever been taken. These are just a few highlights of the weekend monitor as planned for you.

To help set the mood for the coming Thanksgiving holiday, Monitor takes you on a visit to the banks of the James River at Berkeley Plantation, Virginia, the scene of America's first Thanksgiving celebration more than 300 years ago. For sports fans, Monitor takes you to Michigan Stadium at Ann Arbor for the big Michigan, Ohio State football game. And for everybody,

a most unusual listening experience as Monitor takes you behind the walls of Leavenworth penitentiary. You'll learn of this famous prison's operation from warden CH Looney. Sit down to lunch with its inmates. Learn from them how confinement behind prison walls affects a man. Learn of their opportunities for rehabilitation.

There'll be celebrities, music, news and sports. All on monitor all weekend long beginning Friday night over most of these NBC stations, X minus one and tonight's story. coffin cure. I saw the headlines on the way downtown in the morning, common cold cured, and sure enough there was his picture, Chauncey Patrick Coffin.