What happens
Andrew Johnson, a runaway apprentice tailor, settles in Greenville, Tennessee, and strikes a bargain with Eliza McCardle, a librarian who teaches him to read and write. They marry and Johnson enters politics, defending the common man. Later, as President after Lincoln's death, he clashes with Congressman Thaddeus Stevens over how the South should be treated, and Stevens presses for his removal from office. The broadcast is a Screen Guild Theater adaptation of the 1943 film Tennessee Johnson, first aired on July 5, 1943, starring Gary Cooper as Andrew Johnson, Ruth Hussey as Eliza and Lionel Barrymore as Thaddeus Stevens, with Ralph Morgan as narrator.
Greenville, Tennessee, then Washington, D.C., in the 1830s through the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in the 1860s
Characters: Andrew Johnson, Eliza McCardle, Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln, Chief Justice Chase
Listen for: The courtroom exchanges between Andrew Johnson and Thaddeus Stevens, and Eliza's advice to her husband during the impeachment crisis.
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.