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Refinery Explosion
Airdate: Thursday - April 19, 1962

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

a passenger on a swan seat bus in Wales. . .

Show Description

Shep reads article about man finding the hand of a mummy on a bus and then expands on it. Walking along 42nd street in the dark of the moon - inside of each of us there is a peeping Tom He tells about, as a kid, how he lived in a steel town and was a mailboy at a mill. He describes cleaning out the open hearth furnaces. As a kid one day his family was driving past a refinery when all of a sudden in the distance one of the stills blew up. The river began to burn. Walking throught the streets of Ibadan Nigerial

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News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
•		Gripping Episode

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 11:26	Speaking of 2500 year old mummified hands, this is WOR AM and FM New Yorkee . . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 11:34	Alcoa Aluminum
• 15:05	Movie Promotion	Counterfeit Trader - William Holden

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 01:11	Gesang Der Junglinge / Song Of The Youths
• 11:13	Tiger Rag
• 17:29	Bye Bye Blues
• 39:00	Banjorama

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 15:32	Al

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	Travel	March 1962	Trip To Nigeria
•	Plots / Story Lines		Steel Mill
•	General Topics		Poetry

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

	Date	Title
	April 19, 1962 Recno: 3247	Refinery Explosion	Original Airing

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