The Salt City Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 5, 1956)

“The Salt City Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 5, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Salt City to serve a subpoena on Ed Julian, but discovers the town is controlled by a man named Jim Reno who runs the local smelterworks. At Reno's facility, Johnny finds Ed Julian and another man named Chili Winters dead, and Reno frames Johnny for the murders using Johnny's own gun, claiming self-defense was impossible and that Salt City's police will believe Reno's version of events.

Salt City, a remote desert town with a smelterworks, featuring a diner and other local establishments.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Sam Rubin, Ed Julian, Jim Reno, Chili Winters, Connie

Listen for: Johnny's account of how he was drugged at the cafe, discovered the two dead men at the smelterworks, and became framed for their murders by the powerful Jim Reno, who controls the town's law enforcement.

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.