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Show Summary

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

WOR Show
Original Airing

First 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

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".

Notes

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)

Sponsor	Time	Notes
Miller Beer
Rover 2000
Wohlmuth

Music (All times approximate)

None Listed

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

Engineer and Staff in Booth

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Summary/Rating Credit

By: Max Schmid
Date: -
Rating: Not Rated

Instruments Played

Unknown

Related Plots and Story Lines Used

• Army - General Topics

• Zinsmeister, Carl - People

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

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

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1966 Set 4	216a	Cassette

Made in the USA

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