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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for today is called If I Should Wake Before I Die. I'm a practical man. I want you to understand that I am practical, utterly practical. That I believe nothing that cannot be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. I know that men live because the lives of many of them impinge on me who also live.…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

D

Don Briggs

E

Ernest Chappell

Network›

A

ABC net

Network

An excellent story about the future in which a patriotic scientist destroys the Moon, kills off most of the Earth, and has bigger plans for the future! A well-written tale of astronauts and atom bombs.

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  • Audio from Internet Archive (Quiet_Please). Curated by OTRR. Goldie does not claim ownership of this broadcast.
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Quiet, Please, Episode 89

If I Should Wake Before I Die

Sunday, February 27, 1949 · 29:29

Quiet, Please, Episode 89

If I Should Wake Before I Die

Sunday, February 27, 1949 · 29:29

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Headlines

  • 1949 — The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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