The Fair-Way Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (July 11, 1951)

“The Fair-Way Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 11, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A bomb destroys a Fairway Airlines plane shortly after takeoff near Springfield, killing 13 people and destroying two houses below. Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to help determine which passenger was the intended target. A ground crew member named Wilbur Wheeler becomes a person of interest after it's revealed he was obsessed with a stewardess who died in the crash and was engaged to the co-pilot.

Springfield Hartford airport and surrounding area, the day after a plane crash

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Sam Harris, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Goodhue, Captain Jim Lenhart, Wilbur Wheeler, Shirley, Bill Strand

Listen for: The investigation into the bombing and the questioning of Wilbur Wheeler, who had motive through jealousy over the stewardess Shirley and her engagement to co-pilot Bill Strand.

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.