Starter of this subject: Steve Sanders
Last post in this subject: 3/2/2000
Messages in this subject: 2
| Steve Sanders | 3/2/2000 2 replies |
| Does anyone else remember John Nesbitt, and, if so, do you have any information about him or his radio program? I have been trying to develop a line on him for months, and can't turn up anything. As I remember, he presented readings describing unusual historical events. One story I recall told of a man who sired and trained a family of counterfeiters. While other children were out playing his children were learning the painstaking art of engraving. When they matured, they were so adept that they produced plates which were actually better than those produced by the engravers at the U.S. Mint which is what eventually led to their undoing. Have I lost it, or did this guy really exist? The program was on during the late 40's and early 50's if my memory serves me correctly. Anyone out there with any recollection of this program or information as to how I could obtain further details about it? |
| Ted Hering | 3/2/2000 1 replies |
| John Nesbitt's Passing Parade was a series of movie shorts in the 1940s-50s. A radio version replaced Fibber McGee and Molly for at least one summer season. Indiana Recording Club used to have a dozen or so shows on a reel-to-reel. |
| J.Cooper | 3/7/2000 0 replies |
| From John Dunning' s great book TUNE IN YESTERDAY: "John Nesbitt was a Shakespearan student from Spokane,Washington whose father died leaving a suitcase of old newspaper clippings of strange happenings from around the world. Nesbitt investigated, became interested and in researching them, came up with the Idea of a radio program-- calling it not.."Believe it Or Not", but "The Passing Parade" of incidents involving real people." On radio since 1938-to-1949 in various time slots and lengths and on different networks. The half-hour shows replacing vacationing Fibber McGee in the summer of 1943 are powerful WW2 stories. There were also 70 -MGM movie short subjects.Two winning Academy Awards.Some 50-- OTR Programs are in circulation. I had heard the story before that he wrote the scripts but many times waited until the last minute to put them on paper needing a dozen or so people helping him at the last second and sometimes ad-li |