Assassination In Time
Professor Jennings Andrews shows his time machine to his graduate student and daughter in a dark lab. Their ordinary lives fall apart when the professor sends the two young people back to when Lincoln was alive. They have a hard time dealing with knowing what will happen as they watch the president get killed.
Professor Jennings Andrews, his scientific breakthrough in time travel perfected, transports his daughter Peg and her fiancé Mac McDonald, his first human travelers, back to a most significant day in American history—April 14, 1865, the day Abraham Lincoln was shot. With bitter memories of the Civil War still lingering, Peg and Mac, aware of what really happened on that ill-fated day, set out to undo one of the great tragedies in American history.
In a dimly lit laboratory, Professor Jennings Andrews demonstrates his time-travel device to his graduate student and his daughter. The trio's normal life shatters when the professor sends his two young colleagues back to Lincoln's time. They struggle with the weight of foreknowledge as they witness the president's assassination.
A scientist perfects time travel and sends his daughter and her fiancé back to April 14, 1865, the day Lincoln was assassinated. Aware of what really happened on that ill-fated day, they set out to undo one of the great tragedies in American history.
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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“Assassination In Time.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, September 26, 1975.
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