Flicklives

Great Plains of Kansas
Airdate: Thursday - June 2, 1966

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

I think I'm going to try doing an entire radio show tonight with a cigar stuck in my mouth. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Max Schmid -  ]   
  Will do the whole show with a cigar in his mouth.

News from Kansas.  

Recalls train trip through Kansas during Army years.

Goldberg, from Brooklyn, has acute agoraphobia, can't look out window at the empty spaces.  

Also on board, Zinsmeister, who would become a colonel.  

AP news story of Miss America's visit to Great Bend. Kansas: "It makes a different kind of man".

Comments

• Shep goes into greater detail on a July 1968 show called "Creatures of Nature" about Dan, the rider sitting next to him.

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	Miller Beer
•	Rover 2000
•	Wohlmuth

Music (All times approximate)

Not Determined yet

Needs to be ID'd
(same as yesterday, whatever it's called) Train Sounds record

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	Skip

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Not Determined

Rating / Review

None Yet

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	Army		Army
•	People		Zinsmeister, Carl

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	June 2, 1966 Recno: 583	Great Plains of Kansas	Original Airing

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

NONE

The Best Source for Quality Jean Shepherd Audio

Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1966 Set 4	216a	Cassette

Sorry, Not Available

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975