Death of Socrates

This is John Daly in Athens. Will Socrates escape? That is still the big question here in the capital of Greece on this dying day in the first year of the 95th Olympia. I'm standing before the door of the prison behind which the friends of the condemned philosophers saw the rumor goes are urging him to save himself from drinking the poison hemlock. Socrates has

only to walk out of that prison and bought a ship to freedom in exile and the prayers of his friends and the hopes of his enemies will be answered. This dramatic situation which is having significant repercussions throughout the Hellenistic world is now inevitably approaching its climax and in 30 seconds will no 399 BC CBS Cisbet.

Ancient Greece prays that Socrates will not die. CBS takes you back almost 2,347 years to that fateful day when one of the most and lightning democracies on Earth, trembled on the brink of a cup of poison.

All things are as they were then, except for one thing. CBS is there. CBS is there, produced and directed by Robert Luashean with Walter Hamden portraying Socrates in this broadcast is based on authentic historical fact and quotation.

And now, Athens, 399 BC and John Dehaly. And John Daly heard the rumor that the friends of Socrates were in the prison, meaning with him to take his freedom. CBS has been here on the spot, attempting to verify that rumor.

Should Socrates agree to save himself, it would be a simple matter for his friends to whisk him away through this sea of white tunics worn by bystanders, only too willing and too eager to fulfill the hope of escape.