Mister District Attorney debuted on the radio 4-3-1939
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Today in 1939 Mr. District Attorney was heard for the first time on the radio.
The radio crime-adventure serial followed the ‘champion of the people’ and was originally a 15-minute nightly program. In this broadcast, Mr. DA (Dwight Weist) goes after protection racketeers (Jay Jostyn as one of the bad guys.)
Later that summer (June of 1939), the program went to a half-hour weekly format and aired through 1952.
Please enjoy the first broadcast of this series entitled “The Restaurant Killers.”
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Today in 1933, FDR broadcast his first “Fireside Chat” to discuss the banking crisis. This is the very broadcast:
Today in 1924, Calvin Cooldige became the first president to do a radio address. Although his 1924 address doesn’t appear to be in existence, please enjoy a short 1928 excerpt of Coolidge bestowing a medal on Charles Lindberg:
