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Crime Classics lethal habits of marg 540526
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Duration: 00:30:42
Publish Date: 2006-05-15 17:52:27
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clickhere Visit the Radio America Store web site.Buy your 50 mp3 for &5.00 creative commons license click here visit creative commons license Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docudrama which aired over CBS from June 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was basically a historical true crime series, examining crimes, and especially murders, from the past. It grew out of Lewis's personal interest in famous murder cases, and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the facts, personages, and feel of the time period. Comparatively little dramatic license was taken with the facts and events, but the tragedy was leavened with humor, expressed largely through the narration. The crimes dramatized generally covered a broad time and place frame from ancient Greece to late 19th century America. Each episode in the series was co-written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, in consultation with Lewis, although the scripting process was more a matter of research, as the stories were "adapated from the original court reports and newspaper accounts" for the most part (or from the works of historians in the case of the ancient crimes). The cases ranged from famous assassinations (of Abraham Lincoln and Julius Caesar) and the lives (and often deaths) of the likes of Cesare Borgia and Blackbeard to more obscure yet fascinating cases, such as that of Bathsheba Spooner. Spooner killed her husband Joshua Spooner in 1778 and became the first woman to be tried and executed in the United States of America.
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