Signing of Magna Carta

This is John Bailey at Runny Meed England. The hour has come and gone this 19th day of June, 1215. The hour when King John agreed to sign the Magna Carta. But the King has still not left Windsor Castle seven miles away for the Council Meadows here on the Thames.

The patience of the Barons gathered here at Runny Meed is at the breaking point. After three days of haggling with the King's emissaries, the 49 articles of the Magna Carta still remain. The Barons' unconditional terms of peace to end the war which has been raging up and down this English aisle for more than a year.

If John does not arrive and act shortly, there is the strongest possibility that the barons will take to the sword once again, march on winter, castle and once more plunge England in civil war. This is the dread thought that strikes fear into the hearts of thousands upon thousands of people who have gathered here from all over England.

Run in me, if you detacune the 9-p, the 1250, CBS is there. King John, run in me, the barons and their magna cotta. CBS takes you back 732 years to a momentous milestone on the road to modern democracy.

All things are as they were then, except for one thing. CBS is there. CBS is there, produced and directed by Robert Louis Cheyenne, is based on authentic historical fact and quotation. And now, June the 19th, 1215, the Meadow called Runny Meade.

It's a clear, beautiful spring day, and for days now, the Barons and their forces have been waiting. Every hour their numbers grow larger and larger, more and more galaey colored pavilions rise over the meadows to quarter this host. Judging by the tremendous array of men and weapons, we would say that here at Runnymeade stands the bulk of the mike and