What happens
Tom Dooley returns home to the Smokies after four years of war and finds his former sweetheart, Laura Foster, engaged to a Yankee doctor, Paul Cabot. Tom is bitter and volatile, and the tension between the men and the town grows through a betrothal party, a tense walk with Laura, and a hostile encounter at the general store. The story is based on fact and is presented as a suspense drama starring Joseph Cotton, first broadcast on March 30, 1953 on the Suspense series.
The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, shortly after the Civil War
Characters: Tom Dooley, Laura Foster, Paul Cabot, Noah, Jess, Cousin Noah
Listen for: Tom's bitter homecoming and his confrontation with Laura and Paul Cabot
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.