The Clinton Matter - Ep 1: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 12, 1956)

“The Clinton Matter - Ep 1” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 12, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Clinton, Colorado to meet with Julian Osburn, who reported irregularities in the construction of a new school building. Upon arrival, Dollar discovers that Osburn has been killed in a fire that completely destroyed the school, and the local sheriff seems oddly unconcerned about the circumstances. When Dollar questions the school principal, Miss Hawkins, she abruptly ends the conversation after receiving a mysterious phone call, and that night Dollar witnesses a man being beaten in an alley.

Clinton, Colorado, a small mountain town of about 14,000 people in the winter, centered around a newly constructed school building that has burned down.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Albert Davies, Sheriff Paul Daugherty, Julian Osburn, Miss Florie Hawkins, David Baines

Listen for: The mystery of what irregularities Osburn discovered in the school's construction, why he died in the fire, and what the sheriff and Miss Hawkins are hiding.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.