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...This broadcast seriously interfered with the work of 65 State police. No shots have been fired by any authorized officer searching for the ten prisoners. . . We wasted several hours ... in determining there was no truth to substantiate the broadcast and in making an inquiry into the hoax. ... I desire the Federal Radio Commission to make a complete investigation. . . ." A day later he withdrew his protest, "pending further investigation...
Meanwhile Columbia Broadcasting System was making its own inquiry. First thing it did was to discharge WIND's program manager. But it insisted that the broadcast had been made with the approval and assistance of the authorities. "Intensive investigation which is not yet complete indicates that this broadcast, far from being a hoax, was substantially correct," said the company. "The investigation does show, however, that a responsible and experienced Columbia man . . . did connive at increasing the number of shots, although there were shots of spontaneous origin. We are satisfied that when Capt.Leach has completed his investigation he will find...
Logan A. ("Steve") Trumbull, the dismissed program manager, declared that the shots were fired by officers in enthusiasm over the broadcast. "We never once announced that a battle was being fought," he said. "We first had Mrs. Thelma Gustaffson talk into the microphone on how some of the escaped convicts stopped at her home to ask directions. . . . There were police cars going up & down the highway with sirens sounding all the time. Some of the officers wanted to fire their guns to give the broadcast atmosphere, but I told them...
...just itching for a chance to do some shooting. Well, he cut loose and began firing. I had covered up for the officers, but since I'm getting heck for it I may as well tell the rest of it. ... Three of them heard part of the broadcast and the shots while they were in a speakeasy and they came over. They joined in the shooting and gave us entirely too much atmosphere...
...under what conditions a series of competitions will be held for men in the three upper classes to qualify for positions on the squad. The Council has made tentative arrangements for four debates in November and December. Two of these are away from Cambridge, and one is to be broadcast by a local radio station...