The Big Story

- Season 7

(1955)

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Miami Herald reporter Bert Collier probed the racket of black market babies after a young unmarried mother told him how she was forced to sign adoption papers for her newborn baby.

Reporter Nate Kleger of the Philadelphia Bulletin and a criminal psychiatrist learned the identity of the man who killed four women in a Philadelphia neighborhood.

Zarko Franks reporter for the Houston (Texas) Chronicle proves that even eyewitnesses to a crime can be mistaken when a fighter is wrongly accused.

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Charles Scott of the New York Journal-American interviews a deaf mute who cannot read or write, who is accused of robbery and assault.

Reporter Robert Ward working for the Bridgeport Connecticut newspaper spends a tense fifteen hours looking for a radioactive capsule.

Rip Manning of the Columbus (Oh) Citizen uncovered facts on the background of a lovers' lane suicide pact in which a 17-year-old girl died and established that an ex-convict survivor had actually committed a carefully planned murder.

Arthur Petacque of the Chicago Sun-Times and cameraman Joseph Kordick helped nab two murderers.

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Miami newspaperman Al Topal checks into the senseless beating of a young boy, then teams up with the boy's father to capture the teenage gang responsible.

Reporter Cliff Russell of the Corpus Christi (Tx) Caller-Times offers himself as a hostage to a mad gunman who holds two youngsters as prisoners.

Reporter Marie Dauplaise of the Houston (TX) Press, risked her own life to reveal the activities of a fraudulent doctor and his "miracle" atomatron machine.

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The story of William Kennedy from the Watsonville, California Registrar Pajaronian who uncovered corruption in high office in Santa Cruz County. The district attorney and the vice syndicates were in cahoots. As the show ends, Kennedy receives the Big Story Award. "Ben Grauer narrates the story that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporter William Kennedy of Watsonville, California. After covering a murder trial, Kennedy suspects that the D.A. was bribed.

While on vacation hunting deer, reporter John Keyes of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin finds a clue which breaks the mystery of a series of brutal beatings.

Reporter George Thompson of the Philadelphia News races to stop a man who plans to kill in order to be killed. The man, an unhappy husband who wants to die but is afraid to commit suicide, figures that the police will kill him if he shoots a few passersby.

Columnist Victor Reisel had just concluded an interview and while leaving the broadcast studio had sulphuric acid thrown in his face, blinding him permanently.

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