The David Rockey Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (January 20, 1951)

“The David Rockey Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 20, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to San Juan, Del Sur to locate David Rocky, who has unexpectedly inherited a million and a half dollars from his adoptive father Titus Morgan. When Dollar arrives, he discovers Rocky has been arrested and is being held on a murder charge in connection with the death of a man named Sagasa, a longshoreman. Rocky claims he was drunk and cannot remember what happened that night.

San Juan, Del Sur, Nicaragua; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City

Characters: Johnny Dollar, David Rocky, Mr. Richter, Clayton Wall, Sergeant, Sagasa

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's investigation into Rocky's whereabouts and his clash with the local Guardians police force who refuse to cooperate; Rocky's confused account of a night he cannot remember.

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.