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The Abraham Lincoln Murder Trial

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When a case of gambling and murder shines in the public’s eye, a young Abe Lincoln, just starting out his career in court politics, demonstrates his uncanny knack for prosecution.

On trial for murder, circuit lawyer Abraham Lincoln works to ensure the freedom of a man wrongfully charged. Loosely based on the early years in the life of Lincoln.

A traveling attorney named Abraham Lincoln fights in court to free an innocent man accused of killing someone. Inspired by true events from Lincoln's early career.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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