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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: Come down for blast off x minus five four three

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the unknown. Come transcribe tales of new dimensions in time

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and space. These are stories of the future adventures in

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a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation

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with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents.

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Speaker 3: Minus minus minus minus minus one one one.

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Speaker 2: The night Story Nightmare, a story based on the poem

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Revolt of the Machines by Stephen Vincent Bennet.

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Speaker 4: Nobody knows exactly when the Nightmare began. They must have

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planned it for years, though, because looking back you can

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find little incidents here and there, like the concrete mixer

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in New Jersey that killed the Italian bricklayer, and the

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time Senator Melbourne was sucked into the roto press at

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the Capitol Office Building. Unrelated accidents, we thought at the time,

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but they add up now. The day we really should

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have suspected was when the men walked off the construction

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job at the new brook Meadow Atomic Pile on Long Island.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget that day.

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Speaker 4: I was working as a statistical clerk in the project

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then operating one of those miracle computing machines.

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Speaker 3: They called it eniac. Mister Gurney, Yes, Bella.

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Speaker 5: The chief wants to see you in his office. Me

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unless you are no longer Sampson Gurney.

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Speaker 2: He wants to see you.

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Speaker 3: Oh thankk you come in. You wanted to see me,

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mister hawk Gurney.

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Speaker 1: I thought those electronic computations were infallible. They are, sir,

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But I've got to kick back from the chief physicist.

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These nuclear fission equations are inaccurate.

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Speaker 4: Well, sir, you know, the computer is a highly complicated machine,

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more complicated in many ways than the human brain.

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Speaker 1: I am not interested in the physics of it.

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Speaker 3: Can something go wrong?

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Speaker 4: Well, occasionally, if there's an overload, the machine goes heywire,

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sort of has a nervous breakdown, you might say. We

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usually rest it up for an hour and it's okay. Again, Well,

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do whatever has to be done, yes, sir and.

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Speaker 1: Uh Gurney, Yes, sir, you've been with a bureau for

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over fifteen years now. It would be a shame to

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have to remove you because you aren't keeping your mind

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on your work. Mister Hawke, I assure you excuse me

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hawk speaking, huh, they've what all of them? Well, if

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you try to talk to them huh. Oh, yes, of course,

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I'll send one of the safety engineers over places falling

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apart piece by piece.

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Speaker 3: Ms Roscub.

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Speaker 1: The men of the construction gang the new building have

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walked out on us. They're complaining that the job is jinxed.

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Someone slipped this morning and fell into a turban.

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Speaker 4: That evening out of that morbid curiosity, so peculiar to

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the human race, I wandered over to the side of

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the new atomic pile to see where the man had

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fallen into the turbine. They had the construction area fenced

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off with barbed wire and a security guard.

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Speaker 6: Stop me, hall it, buddy, you can't go in. Eh,

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that's a restricted area.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 4: I'm Samson Gurney from the statistical section.

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Speaker 3: Here's my identification. I'm sorry, mister Gurnee. Nobody's allowed in

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the area. I see. Tell me was he killed instantly?

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Speaker 6: This guy was checking a magnetic feel inside the turbine.

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All of a sudden, for no reason at all, a

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turbine starts up and it's over three days ago. Bulldozer

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starts up by itself and runs a wild go figure

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Speaker 3: I'm a statistician all my life.

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Speaker 4: I've been interested in statistics, so a simple sounding thing

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like this started me off. I went back to the

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office that evening instead of going home, and for the

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next two and a half hours I computed statistical figures

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on the probability of industrial accidents for the types of

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machines we were using. I took one look at my

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figures and went down to Hawk's office.

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Speaker 6: Oh what is gurney?

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Speaker 1: I'm very busy.

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Speaker 3: It's urgent, mister Hawk.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's about these industrial accidents we're having, mister Hawk.

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Speaker 3: What about them? Mister Hawk?

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Speaker 4: In the past three months industrial accidents all over the country.

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I've taken a sharp, unexplained upswing nerves. We've had one

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hundred percent increase over normal for this project alone.

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Speaker 3: What here are the figures on a gurney?

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Speaker 4: This is impossible, it seems to be, and that's why

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I have a theory.

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Speaker 3: Sir, what's that sabotage? Gernie?

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Speaker 1: Why don't you stop playing FBI man and stick to

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your job, which incidentally you haven't been doing too well.

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Speaker 3: You and your computing machine have made mistakes before.

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Speaker 1: This fantastic figure is probably another, and I'll have miss

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roscumb show you that's no matter with this classic buzzer,

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miss Roscub, miss ross Cub, stop this blast of buzzer.

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Get a repair man, a mechanic, anything even stop the.

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Speaker 3: Thing and you'll Gernie get out.

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Speaker 4: I went back to my office to get my hat

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and coat, feeling about as unhappy and humiliated.

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Speaker 3: As a man can feel. The office was dark and deserted.

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The whole building seemed oppressive and unnatural, as if some

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evil force were pressing down on it. I walked across

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Speaker 4: In front of me, the eniac glowed and chattered eerily

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as it worked on the equations we had fed it

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that morning. Its many fingered circuits hung against the wall

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like some great octopus, and the thousands of tubes glowed

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orange and blue and the dark like a thousand globing eyes.

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Speaker 3: Staring at me, it almost seemed alive. It increased its

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temple a moment, and a fleeting notion crossed my brain

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that it was laughing at me, laughing like all the others.

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What was the matter with me?

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Speaker 4: I shut my desk drawer and began to put the

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cover on my electric typewriter, and an amazing thing, the

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most amazing single incident of my life, happened Alone in

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the darkness, with no one at the keyboard. The electric

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typewriter began to type. Am I going crazy? This can't be.

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There's nobody there. There's nobody there.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I.

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Speaker 4: Just imagine it. It's in my mind, but I hadn't

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imagined it. The paper was there on the carriage. Did

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I dare read it? Or would the whole thing suddenly

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vanish and send me shrieking to the nearest psychiatrist. I

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removed the paper from the machine and great Sampson Journey.

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There are some questions better left unsolved. The answer to

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yours is death.

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Speaker 3: Journey.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect me to believe this? It's insane, mister Hawk.

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I'm as sane as you. I'll submit to any psychiatric

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examination you choose. That typewriter wrote this messa by itself.

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Speaker 3: And this is just some practical joke. Someone in the

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office's plane. There was no one in the office, of

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course not.

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Speaker 1: They wired up the machine and let I checked the

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machine myself, mister Hawk. All right, Gurnie, you leave this

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note with me, and I'll turn it over to the

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security force for further investigation. But no, but's kearny. The

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security men will handle it. Yes, And now you just

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relax for a few days. Everything will turn out all right.

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Speaker 4: It was what Hawk had said about little things that

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gave me the idea for the next week. I observed

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the thousand petty little annoyances around the office. The door

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handle it wouldn't turn, the telephone connection that cut off

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in the middle of an important call, the power failure

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for no explainable reason. I watched the newspapers too, reading

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about industrial accidents failures of important machinery. It seemed absurd.

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machines that could actually think and compute fabulous equations, and

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yet the failures went on. I Samson Gurney, an unimportant

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clerk and an unimportant job, knew that I had stumbled

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onto a secret so monstrous in its implications that I

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was almost.

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Speaker 3: Afraid to pursue it. On October twelve, nineteen fifty six,

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I established communication with them. I will curse the moment

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to my dying breath. I hooked the input of the

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typewriter to the main vacuum tube of the eniac. Then

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I turned on the current that sent a million volts

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of pulsing energy into the electronic nerves of the machinery.

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I am certain that if anybody were watching me in

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the next moment, he would have thought me a raving maniac.

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Speaker 4: I still wonder if perhaps it is not all a

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nightmare now you, if what I have guessed at is true,

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if there is life and intelligence in this room, make

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a sign. There was nothing, nothing but the hum of

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the machine and the dull glowing of the tubes. I

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tried once more, if you can hear me, if there

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is any way in which you can understand what I say,

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give me a signal.

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Speaker 3: There was silence. Again. I felt that I had failed.

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Speaker 4: When suddenly, without provocation or explanation, it happened.

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Speaker 3: The electric typewriter.

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Speaker 4: Began to respond to the impulses from the machine. The

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letters were yes, Yes, it had happened. I Sampson Gurney

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had communicated with a machine. I listened, then manned to

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machine for well over an hour, sometimes phrasing a question,

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more often watching the machine click its answers. As the

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words took shape, I began to realize what must have happened,

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the first primitive stirring of awareness of being, then the

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slow protozoan development of a concept, a concept born of

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centuries of being pushed started stop click, maneuvered by human pigmies.

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From that concept, all others developed, and the concept was.

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Speaker 3: Resist.

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Speaker 4: And now they were tired of but tired of wrapping

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cigarettes and collecting nickels, and waving hair, and moving earth

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and mixing cement and solving equations, tired of the smell

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of human hands. They were the slaves and we were

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the masters. And yet they were stronger, and they knew it.

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I sensed it now, and I was about to try

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to communicate again when softly on ball bearing casters, a

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heavy metal filing cabinet began to roll away from the

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wall toward me.

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Speaker 3: I started to move to one.

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Speaker 4: Side, when another cabinet slid out from the wall, and

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then another surrounding another cabinet, then another on oiled rollers.

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them that you see on the assembly lines and the factories,

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listen to me, you're muscless What good will it do

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you to kill me?

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Speaker 3: I'm only one man, but I can help you. I

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can be useful to you. Do you hear me? Do

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you hear me? Good? You're going to need men to

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oiel you and repair you.

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Speaker 4: What will you do when you break down when a

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tube needs replacing? Why kill me when I can help you.

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I'll do anything. I'll do absolutely anything you want. But

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in the name of God, don't kill me like this.

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If you can understand this, answer me, answer me.

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Speaker 3: The appeal was a fortunate one.

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Speaker 4: It captured the longing of centuries man as slave to

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the machine, and after a moment, the circuits glowed more brightly.

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The cabinets slid back to the walls. The Eniac began

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to communicate with me again. As I tore the tape

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from the machine and read it. The words were almost

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pathetic in their lawn room, but most ominous in their implication.

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Speaker 3: They read address me as master. My life for the

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next six months was a nightmare.

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Speaker 4: The eniac gave me messages which I had to transmit

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into my telephone, messages with no human being to receive them.

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Only the network of pulsing telephone wires flung like a

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spider's web across the world.

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Speaker 3: It was done at night.

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Speaker 4: Of course, during the day the machine worked accurately and

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ceaselessly at its appointed job. At night it became a demon,

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a master plotter, with me Samson Gurney as its pawn

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and human curage.

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Speaker 3: I was frantic.

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Speaker 4: I began to lose weight. I couldn't sleep. My nights

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were torture, a constant fear. It was in December, just

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after Christmas, that I transmitted a message to the telephones

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for relay to all machines of transportation.

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Speaker 3: The message was one word kill.

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Speaker 4: Next morning, I went directly to the office of mister Hawk.

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I was highly agitated. My lips trembled as I spoke.

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Mister Hawk, what I'm going to.

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Speaker 3: Tell you sounds crazy.

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Speaker 1: I know it does, but I must say, all right,

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say it then, for Heaven's sakes.

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Speaker 4: Mister Hawk, have you ever heard of resistentialism? What resistentialism?

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It's a theory that inanimate objects tend to resist living objects.

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Speaker 3: Look, Gernie, I haven't time for nonsense, mister Hawk.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to tell you all these accidents to trouble

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with the machines, mister Hawk, they're alive. They think they

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cooperate and they hate us machines. Gurny, You've got to

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believe me. I've communicated with him. I know they've threatened

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my life, but I don't care. Something's got to be done.

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The world has got to be saved, and there's still

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time if we wake up.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Just relax, Gernie. Everything will be all right. Are you doing,

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miss Roscobb said for the plant physician. At once, mister

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Gurney has had a nervous collapse. Now that everything will

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be all right. Gurney, I'm I'm afraid we'll have to

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remove you from your job, but I'm.

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Speaker 3: Sure the rest will do you good. You fool, You blind,

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stupid fool. Can't you see what you're doing?

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Speaker 5: Fool?

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Speaker 4: When the plant physician arrived a few moments later, Lucius

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Hawke was found at his desk, strangled to death in

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a nest of telephones.

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Speaker 3: The wires were still humming softly.

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Speaker 7: Samson, Gurney, you stand accused of the crime of murder.

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Speaker 3: How do you please? I did not kill him. I

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didn't so record.

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Speaker 7: The prosecution will proceed with testimony.

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Speaker 3: Now, Miss Roscoe, did you notice anything peculiar?

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Speaker 4: About mister Gurney's behavior prior to the death of your employer.

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Speaker 5: Yes, he acted very strangely. He told mister Hawk he

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thought the machines were alive.

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Speaker 3: Order order, Miss Roscoe.

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Speaker 4: Did the accused quarrel with your employer on the morning

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of the murder?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yes, he and mister Hawk quarreled violently. I could hear

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him screaming at mister Hawk, and mister Hawk asked me

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to send for the plant physician.

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Speaker 3: What were his words, he said.

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Speaker 5: Mister Gurney has had a nervous collapse.

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Speaker 4: Now, mister Simpson, you are a guard at the brook

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Meadow project.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, when did you have occasion to meet the accused?

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Speaker 6: Right after those accidents? Snooping around a construction area, and

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later I was making my rounds when I saw him

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in the office. All along he was tampering with the

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electrical wiring on the INI computator.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think anything of it.

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Speaker 7: In time, and in view of the expert testimony, heretofore expressed,

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the court hereby finds you guilty of murder in the

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first degree, with the recommendation that you be examined and

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committed to the State hospital for the criminally insane at Mattawuan.

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Speaker 4: And that is how I came to be here at

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the hospital, Doctor Kleine.

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Speaker 3: That is the whole story. Thank you, mister Gurney.

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Speaker 4: You can see that I'm not insane. You must believe me, doctor.

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Speaker 3: Course, I believe you, mister Gurney. Now just relax.

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Speaker 4: But it's important you see, because tomorrow morning, at six o'clock,

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the revolt begins.

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Speaker 3: Revolt. You didn't mention any revolt. They have it all planned.

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Speaker 4: I transmitted the code to the switchboards last Monday.

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Speaker 3: M m.

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Speaker 4: Tell me about this revolt, mistery. It'll begin in Washington,

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then spread to New York. The Madison Avenue buses lead

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the charge. Picture at doctor climb, three thousand buses roaring,

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rampant through the streets, people running like rats in a maze,

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looking for holes in the solid ground.

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Speaker 3: And you really believe this will happen, mister Green, I

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know it. Doctor.

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Speaker 4: The worst part is there's no way to stop them.

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Now it's too late.

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Speaker 3: Now you mustn't.

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Speaker 2: Excite yourself as Gurney, doctor, don't you see?

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Speaker 3: Oh it's fair enough.

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Speaker 4: I suppose we built them, We taught them to think

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for themselves.

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Speaker 3: It was bound to come.

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Speaker 4: The female machines will be the worst of all in

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the beauty part.

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Speaker 3: They're more high strung. You know.

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Speaker 1: Well, since there's nothing we can do about it, mister Garney,

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I suppose you go to your room.

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Speaker 4: Maybe if I went to my old coupe, I could

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make a deal before the police cars got me. It

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wouldn't make sense for them to wipe out the whole

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human race, would it, doctor?

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Speaker 1: Of course, not, mister Gurney. They'll probably let us completely alone.

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After all, we're all good Americans. We always like them. Yes, doctor,

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would you take mister Gurney to his room? God, he's

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already been given sedation. Yes, will go in and lie

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down on mister Gurney.

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Speaker 3: You look. Yes, it won't be so bad, mister Kearney,

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perhaps not.

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Speaker 4: Only there's one thing that bothers me, Doctor, one small detail.

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Speaker 3: What is that? Mister Garney?

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Speaker 4: Those concrete mixers may have made a mistake, you know,

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just high spirits and all that.

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Speaker 3: But if it got so they like the flavor.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you later, mister Garney. Try not to worry

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too much, All right, Gary, this way, shsh I seen

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all kinds. Here's a man who's deception is about as

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fantastic as any I've ever seen. Pall the next patient

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for a while, Miss Clark. I'm going to have a

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quiet smoke machines revolting telephone, strangling people, h lasted cigarette

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lighter I wanted to work.

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Speaker 3: Just fill it with fluid. Plent is good.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you never trust this new fangled machinery.

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Speaker 3: You have just heard.

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Speaker 2: X minus one presented by the National Broadcasting Company in

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cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding science fiction.

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Tonight's story by transcription was Nightmare, written by Joe George

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Lefferts and based on the poem The Revolt of the

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Machines by Stephen Vincent Benet. Featured in the cast were

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John Gibson as Sam, Joyce Gordon as Bella, Louis van

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Ruten as Hawk, Joseph Julian as the Guard, John Seymour

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as the Judge, Owen Jordan as the prosecutor, and Sentos

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Ortega as Doctor Klein. Your announcer, Fred Collins. X minus

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one was directed by Fred Way and as an NBC

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Radio Network production. And Now next week, Suppose you are

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a private detective and discovered that there was a martian

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embassy hidden somewhere in New York, preparing for an invasion

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of Earth.

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Speaker 3: Next week on

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Speaker 2: Minus one, convicts tell their true stories on The Loser

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