
ORSON WELLES'S COMMENTARY (RADIO)
Summary
One in this series devoted to commentary by Orson Welles on current events. On this program, Welles champions the cause of Isaac Woodard, Jr., a black veteran. Returning home by bus after his honorable discharge in February 1946, Woodard was savagely beaten and blinded by a white policeman in Aiken, South Carolina. After reading Woodard's own account of the incident, Welles uses a racist joke to launch an angry, impassioned speech against racism addressed directly to "Officer X," the policeman involved. He warns Officer X that although Woodard cannot be compensated for the loss of his sight, he (Welles) will see to it that Officer X is found and punished.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: July 28, 1946 1:15 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:15:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R88:0207
- GENRE: Radio - Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Racism; Blacks - Social conditions - 1946; Blacks - Veterans; U S - Race relations; African-American Collection - News/Talk
- SERIES RUN: ABC - Radio series, 1946
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Orson Welles … Host
- Isaac Woodard