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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Dot com for Blasstock x NUS Style for WE two
xpln US one fire. From the far horizons of the
(00:36):
unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space.
These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll
live in a million, could be years, on a thousand,
maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy
Science Fiction.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Magazine, presents Minus one Tonight Target one. But first hear this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The presents have been opened, the gifts enjoyed, and in
the case of the kids, a few are already slightly battered.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But NBC has one more holiday package for you, and
it will be delivered over this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
On Monitor, there'll be the music of such bands as
those of Gyl Lombardo and Richard Maltby, punctuated by the
anti commentary of monitors Own Bob and Ray and Fiber,
McGee and Molly, and underscored by the up to the
minute reports of NBC's newsmen at.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Home and abroad.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
From Friday night through Sunday midnight, Monitor will bring you
another weekend of drama, music, news and interviews.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Of special interest to sports fans will.
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Be NBC's coverage of the Friday night fights, Saturday's Blue
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League Championship game. Use and enjoy Monitor your weekend radio service.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes it's not your weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Right with Monitor on Friday nights and stay with Monitor
all weekend long over most of these same NBC stations, ah.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
X minus one and Tonight's Story.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Target One, headquarters of the World Council, was in the
ruined United Nations Building in New York. It took me
an hour to reach it, picking my way across the
red colored rubble that had once been a proud city.
I was ushered into the office of the President of
(02:40):
the Council, a former Russian scientist named Melkoff. It was
hard to realize that only a few decades ago these
people had helped us destroy the world in an atomic
war that led less than one hundred thousand people in the.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Face of the globe. Ill mean.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Hoo, maya good to see you, doctor, Sorry I am.
Two days later, I had the land at Boston. It's
the only airport operating.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Don't you sit down?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, I suppose you are wondering what this is all about.
Very little surprises me, mister President God. As you know, doctor,
the Great War of nineteen sixty left very little of
the human race. What did you leave well, two billion corpses,
three continents rotting and unlivable, and every survivor mutating.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I believe you yourself have had children who could scarcely.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Be called human.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'm sorry to be so blunt. Why did you send
for me as the president? What you suppose?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I gave you an opportunity to do something extremely practical,
such as a chance to prevent the destruction of our world,
which took place thirty years ago, to prevent what.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Has happened, to stop an atomic war?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yes, would you do?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'd sell my soul to the devil.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Mister President.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You mean that, yes, Doctor?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
What would you say was the most important scientific discovery
of the twentieth century? I suppose Einstein's equation E equal
mc square exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
This formula unlocked the atom.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Without it, there would have been no atomic energy and consequently,
no bomb, no war. The formula did not cause the war,
mister President, nor did the man who discovered it. He
was one of the finest human beings who ever lived,
a man utterly dedicated to the pursuit of peace and homy.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes, exactly. That is what will make your task so abhorrent.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Doctor.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
What is this task, mister president? Quite simply, it is
the murder of Albert Einstein?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Are you insane?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Perhaps only history will record that.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
How, in the name of heaven, Albert Einstein died in
nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I am really aware of that. In order to commit
this murder, doctor, you will have to travel back in time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Travel back, you mean that, I mean that our scientists
have succeeded in their experiments.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Paratron and penetration has been achieved. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yes, so are atomic energy and the rockets to the
moon and radio waves long before both of those. You're
actually suggesting that I return to the early twentieth century
to commit a murder.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yes, but why Einstein?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Why not the man who took his contributions and twisted
them into ghastly and human weapons.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Why not them? Because others would replace them. There are
many minds so filled with.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Contempt for their own lives that they would be willing
to destroy, others so warped with hate that they might
even enjoy it. Of no, no, it must be Einstein,
then why me? Why not select some murderer, some fiend.
Because you are a man of the highest morality, These
(06:00):
task must not be performed by some twisted monster. It
must be done by a man of integrity who fully
realizes his responsibility to the Otherwise would be to degrade.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Ourselves and our victim. Come here to the window. Do
you see that covered barge lying in the East River.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, that barge is the finest laboratory we could assemble inside.
It is the mechanism for complete camnession penetration, maintaining a
stable configuration.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
In effect, it is a floating time machine.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You've tested it. It was tested last week. Process of
Milton Waxman went back forty years in.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Time and returned.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We cannot afford another test because our energy sources are
limited with Waxman accompany.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yes, he and one other.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, doctor, what is your answer?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
All right, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That afternoon I was taken aboard the barge in the
East River. I was left alone in the laboratory to
wait for Waxman, a physicists to knew how to operate
the chronosphere. Watsman. I who is this?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
His name is John. This is doctor Charles Martin. I
know the doctor. I don't believe we've met. In my business,
I have to know a lot of people I've never met.
The job is security.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I see he's going with us to see there's no mistake.
That's right, doctor, very well, and I don't suppose murderers
can be choosy about their companions. Before we go any further,
here are some clothes that will be suitable to the
time and place which is our destination.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Please put them on, doctor.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
While you're changing, I'll give you some background on the subject.
Born home, Germany, eighteen seventy nine, German citizen, religion, Jewish,
became a Swiss citizen after graduation from Zurich Polytechnical Institution.
Later migrated to the United States after Adolf Hitler came
to power with a price set on his head by
the Nazis. Nobel Prize for Physics nineteen twenty one, Coppling
(08:23):
Medal nineteen twenty five, Franklin, nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Personal Habits.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Must we do this, He's only doing his job, Go on, John,
Personal habits works in a bare room with only a
pencil and paper. Enjoys sailing, smokes a pipe, never drinks,
is a violinist.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Of consort ride or ride. I'm ready. Good now, just.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Wrap yourself into the accelerator seat.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Ready, switch on.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The sensation will be something akin to weightlessness, a disorientation,
and feeling of art detachment.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
This will last until we have settled.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Into a new orbital configuration.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
We will be able to monitor.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Our time segment on the screen before us, May I
ask our objectives?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The polytechnical Metzurich graduation ceremony in the year nineteen.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Hundred, so young.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He was already formulating the theory of relativity. At this point, doctor,
we have no choice. It must be clean and thorough.
Are you ready, gentlemen, Yes, ready, professor, hold on.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
We will begin to whirl until we reach speeds for
k Mason, penetration is possible. Now. The sensation was unlike
anything I'd ever experienced. I felt body less, waiting.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My consciousness seemed to float free.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I was dimly aware of Watson at the monitoring control,
but otherwise I remember no sensation. Later we told we
took exactly one half hour to vector in on the
right time and place.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That was right after the board.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Marn Are you all right? Yes, yes, I think so, John,
I'm all right. Where are well? According to the monitor.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Our barge is at a duck side on the Lake
of Jeurich. The year should be nineteen hundred. The time
is two o'clock. We have exactly one hour to accomplish
our mission.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Open the hatchway, John Well, and tast ticket a different world.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We can't waste any time. The graduation ceremonies are free.
Now let's go very well just a moment. Gentlemen here,
take the squad addage guns.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We'll lead them. We stepped ashore.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
It was strange to see the world green and be again.
After our red radioactive.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Ruins located a policeman who spoke some English.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He directed us to the auditorium of the Zurich Palotechnical Institute,
where the graduation ceremony was in progress. Don't attract much attention.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Take a seat from the rear.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Now it is a great pleasure to present to the
ploorers of graduation, to the members of the graduating class
on a zuri.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
On a technic institute. First, mister Hans Kubla Kumla. You
will see him, John get. He will have to wait
until they call him to the platform. Mister Heinrik vice
not Victor. Are you ready Marn, yourother one, you must
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do this. Are you ready? Twice Juno, Yes, yes, I am,
I'm ready. Mister Albert Einstein, that's him. Morn should should
take I can't do it. I can't to be that gun.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I know a few minutes what he is supposed it
will be like what our world, the one we left
without a comic fishing. I mean, we'll soon know. I
know one thing is for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
There'll be no mass destruction. The people will be there.
We'll look people, good Lord, There'll be.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Bisions of them in the tree, the green shrubs, and
the beautiful tall buildings.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He looked very young.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
We're a victorian on our ear.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Now hang on.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
When I start the negative penetration.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Raise ourselves.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
According to calculations, we should be back in the East
River from the same day we left.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The world will be as.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It would have been if Einstein had never existed.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Open the hats job.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
The city New York is whole again, No ruins, no rubble.
Those buildings are magnificent. Look at the trees in the parks.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Marn, We've done it. It was worth it. We've done it. Yes,
we've done it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Suddenly from nowhere, an official boat, a police boat, suspicious
of the barge and our parachron and penetration equipment. We
were arrested by federal agents. The barge and our time
machines confiscated. We were drugged, tortured, questioned interminably. It went
on to what seemed like days and weeks. Finally, when
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they decided that they had had every shred of information
we possessed, we.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Were taken before a huge, beetle browed man.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Who seemed to be a combination scientist and civil authority.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Sit him down.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, doctor Maren, we seem to have exhausted the possibilities.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Tell me is there anything new?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And your companions wish to tell me before your disposed
of disposal a euphemism for murdered merton.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Why what have we done?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You haven't done anything yet, but you have a furugh
knowledge of nuclear physics, fision, reaction, hydrogen.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Bonds, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Large mean you have the knowledge we tried to keep
from him. You got it from us ourselves. Don't flattery
use of doctor. We've known the principles of nuclear reaction
ever since Gretchwood Cretchwood, the Brazilian scientists discover of the equation.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
E equals MC square.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I see, then, why are you going to destroy us?
Because my friends are too dangerous. You know, too much
information could lead to our enemies, important principles, enemies. Oh yes,
yess I forgot.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You have no knowledge of contemporary affairs.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Beneath this building, deep in the earth, there is a
thorium piled going thorium you two thirty five would be better. Yes,
are scientists are working that out, the problem of separation
and so on.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's a highly secret project.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Naturally we call it only by the name Manhattan Project Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh no, it couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's too coincidental.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yet, I see, it's true.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You're going through exactly the same steps. In a year,
you'll have an atom bahm, then soon after a hydrogen bomb.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Then intercontinental missiles, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You seem to have great powers of prophecy as well
as great scientific knowledge.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
My friend, did you ever hear of a man named Einstein?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Albert Einstein?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Einstein? No, I never heard of him.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Then the futility of it struck me, the futility of
trying to place the guilt of all of us on
any one man, The futility of trying to do something
worth while by evil means, and finally, the futility of
trying to murder an idea. As they led me to
the execution cell where I now wait, the words of
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a man whose books were destroyed in the war.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Rang in my brain.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The fault, dear brutus, lies not with our stars, but
with ourselves. Fred Collins again, I'll have another word about
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Speaker 4 (16:45):
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Speaker 2 (16:53):
Listen.
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The second someone takes it for the misery of the.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
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Speaker 2 (17:30):
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Speaker 1 (17:39):
You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
which this month features kill Me with Kindness by Richard Wilson.
What would you do if you found yourself in a
place where your every whim was granted? Don't worry, you
wouldn't be the first.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
To spoil Utopia by attempting.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
To improve it. Galaxy Magazine on your new stand today
Tonight X minus one has brought you Target one, a
story from the pages of Galaxy, written by Frederick Paul
and adapted for radio by George Leffards.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Featured in our cast were Joseph Bell as Doctor Marin, Frank.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Silvera as President malcov Dean Almquist as Professor Waxman, Al
Collins as John Guy Repp as the official with Charles Webster.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
This is Fred Collins speaking. X minus one was
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Directed by George Butsize and is an NBC ready on
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Dot com for Blasstock x NUS Style for WE two
xpln US one fire. From the far horizons of the
(00:36):
unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space.
These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll
live in a million, could be years, on a thousand,
maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy
Science Fiction.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Magazine, presents Minus one Tonight Target one. But first hear this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The presents have been opened, the gifts enjoyed, and in
the case of the kids, a few are already slightly battered.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But NBC has one more holiday package for you, and
it will be delivered over this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
On Monitor, there'll be the music of such bands as
those of Gyl Lombardo and Richard Maltby, punctuated by the
anti commentary of monitors Own Bob and Ray and Fiber,
McGee and Molly, and underscored by the up to the
minute reports of NBC's newsmen at.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Home and abroad.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
From Friday night through Sunday midnight, Monitor will bring you
another weekend of drama, music, news and interviews.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Of special interest to sports fans will.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Be NBC's coverage of the Friday night fights, Saturday's Blue
Gray and North South football games, and Sunday's National Football
League Championship game. Use and enjoy Monitor your weekend radio service.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes it's not your weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Right with Monitor on Friday nights and stay with Monitor
all weekend long over most of these same NBC stations, ah.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
X minus one and Tonight's Story.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Target One, headquarters of the World Council, was in the
ruined United Nations Building in New York. It took me
an hour to reach it, picking my way across the
red colored rubble that had once been a proud city.
I was ushered into the office of the President of
(02:40):
the Council, a former Russian scientist named Melkoff. It was
hard to realize that only a few decades ago these
people had helped us destroy the world in an atomic
war that led less than one hundred thousand people in the.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Face of the globe. Ill mean.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Hoo, maya good to see you, doctor, Sorry I am.
Two days later, I had the land at Boston. It's
the only airport operating.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Don't you sit down?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, I suppose you are wondering what this is all about.
Very little surprises me, mister President God. As you know, doctor,
the Great War of nineteen sixty left very little of
the human race. What did you leave well, two billion corpses,
three continents rotting and unlivable, and every survivor mutating.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I believe you yourself have had children who could scarcely.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Be called human.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'm sorry to be so blunt. Why did you send
for me as the president? What you suppose?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I gave you an opportunity to do something extremely practical,
such as a chance to prevent the destruction of our world,
which took place thirty years ago, to prevent what.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Has happened, to stop an atomic war?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yes, would you do?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'd sell my soul to the devil.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Mister President.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You mean that, yes, Doctor?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
What would you say was the most important scientific discovery
of the twentieth century? I suppose Einstein's equation E equal
mc square exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
This formula unlocked the atom.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Without it, there would have been no atomic energy and consequently,
no bomb, no war. The formula did not cause the war,
mister President, nor did the man who discovered it. He
was one of the finest human beings who ever lived,
a man utterly dedicated to the pursuit of peace and homy.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes, exactly. That is what will make your task so abhorrent.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Doctor.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
What is this task, mister president? Quite simply, it is
the murder of Albert Einstein?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Are you insane?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Perhaps only history will record that.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
How, in the name of heaven, Albert Einstein died in
nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I am really aware of that. In order to commit
this murder, doctor, you will have to travel back in time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Travel back, you mean that, I mean that our scientists
have succeeded in their experiments.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Paratron and penetration has been achieved. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yes, so are atomic energy and the rockets to the
moon and radio waves long before both of those. You're
actually suggesting that I return to the early twentieth century
to commit a murder.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yes, but why Einstein?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Why not the man who took his contributions and twisted
them into ghastly and human weapons.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Why not them? Because others would replace them. There are
many minds so filled with.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Contempt for their own lives that they would be willing
to destroy, others so warped with hate that they might
even enjoy it. Of no, no, it must be Einstein,
then why me? Why not select some murderer, some fiend.
Because you are a man of the highest morality, These
(06:00):
task must not be performed by some twisted monster. It
must be done by a man of integrity who fully
realizes his responsibility to the Otherwise would be to degrade.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Ourselves and our victim. Come here to the window. Do
you see that covered barge lying in the East River.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, that barge is the finest laboratory we could assemble inside.
It is the mechanism for complete camnession penetration, maintaining a
stable configuration.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
In effect, it is a floating time machine.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You've tested it. It was tested last week. Process of
Milton Waxman went back forty years in.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Time and returned.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We cannot afford another test because our energy sources are
limited with Waxman accompany.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yes, he and one other.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, doctor, what is your answer?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
All right, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That afternoon I was taken aboard the barge in the
East River. I was left alone in the laboratory to
wait for Waxman, a physicists to knew how to operate
the chronosphere. Watsman. I who is this?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
His name is John. This is doctor Charles Martin. I
know the doctor. I don't believe we've met. In my business,
I have to know a lot of people I've never met.
The job is security.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I see he's going with us to see there's no mistake.
That's right, doctor, very well, and I don't suppose murderers
can be choosy about their companions. Before we go any further,
here are some clothes that will be suitable to the
time and place which is our destination.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Please put them on, doctor.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
While you're changing, I'll give you some background on the subject.
Born home, Germany, eighteen seventy nine, German citizen, religion, Jewish,
became a Swiss citizen after graduation from Zurich Polytechnical Institution.
Later migrated to the United States after Adolf Hitler came
to power with a price set on his head by
the Nazis. Nobel Prize for Physics nineteen twenty one, Coppling
(08:23):
Medal nineteen twenty five, Franklin, nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Personal Habits.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Must we do this, He's only doing his job, Go on, John,
Personal habits works in a bare room with only a
pencil and paper. Enjoys sailing, smokes a pipe, never drinks,
is a violinist.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Of consort ride or ride. I'm ready. Good now, just.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Wrap yourself into the accelerator seat.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Ready, switch on.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The sensation will be something akin to weightlessness, a disorientation,
and feeling of art detachment.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
This will last until we have settled.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Into a new orbital configuration.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
We will be able to monitor.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Our time segment on the screen before us, May I
ask our objectives?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The polytechnical Metzurich graduation ceremony in the year nineteen.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Hundred, so young.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He was already formulating the theory of relativity. At this point, doctor,
we have no choice. It must be clean and thorough.
Are you ready, gentlemen, Yes, ready, professor, hold on.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
We will begin to whirl until we reach speeds for
k Mason, penetration is possible. Now. The sensation was unlike
anything I'd ever experienced. I felt body less, waiting.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My consciousness seemed to float free.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I was dimly aware of Watson at the monitoring control,
but otherwise I remember no sensation. Later we told we
took exactly one half hour to vector in on the
right time and place.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That was right after the board.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Marn Are you all right? Yes, yes, I think so, John,
I'm all right. Where are well? According to the monitor.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Our barge is at a duck side on the Lake
of Jeurich. The year should be nineteen hundred. The time
is two o'clock. We have exactly one hour to accomplish
our mission.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Open the hatchway, John Well, and tast ticket a different world.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We can't waste any time. The graduation ceremonies are free.
Now let's go very well just a moment. Gentlemen here,
take the squad addage guns.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We'll lead them. We stepped ashore.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
It was strange to see the world green and be again.
After our red radioactive.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Ruins located a policeman who spoke some English.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He directed us to the auditorium of the Zurich Palotechnical Institute,
where the graduation ceremony was in progress. Don't attract much attention.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Take a seat from the rear.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Now it is a great pleasure to present to the
ploorers of graduation, to the members of the graduating class
on a zuri.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
On a technic institute. First, mister Hans Kubla Kumla. You
will see him, John get. He will have to wait
until they call him to the platform. Mister Heinrik vice
not Victor. Are you ready Marn, yourother one, you must
(11:44):
do this. Are you ready? Twice Juno, Yes, yes, I am,
I'm ready. Mister Albert Einstein, that's him. Morn should should
take I can't do it. I can't to be that gun.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I know a few minutes what he is supposed it
will be like what our world, the one we left
without a comic fishing. I mean, we'll soon know. I
know one thing is for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
There'll be no mass destruction. The people will be there.
We'll look people, good Lord, There'll be.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Bisions of them in the tree, the green shrubs, and
the beautiful tall buildings.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He looked very young.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
We're a victorian on our ear.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Now hang on.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
When I start the negative penetration.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Raise ourselves.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
According to calculations, we should be back in the East
River from the same day we left.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The world will be as.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It would have been if Einstein had never existed.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Open the hats job.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
The city New York is whole again, No ruins, no rubble.
Those buildings are magnificent. Look at the trees in the parks.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Marn, We've done it. It was worth it. We've done it. Yes,
we've done it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Suddenly from nowhere, an official boat, a police boat, suspicious
of the barge and our parachron and penetration equipment. We
were arrested by federal agents. The barge and our time
machines confiscated. We were drugged, tortured, questioned interminably. It went
on to what seemed like days and weeks. Finally, when
(13:52):
they decided that they had had every shred of information
we possessed, we.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Were taken before a huge, beetle browed man.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Who seemed to be a combination scientist and civil authority.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Sit him down.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, doctor Maren, we seem to have exhausted the possibilities.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Tell me is there anything new?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And your companions wish to tell me before your disposed
of disposal a euphemism for murdered merton.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Why what have we done?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You haven't done anything yet, but you have a furugh
knowledge of nuclear physics, fision, reaction, hydrogen.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Bonds, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Large mean you have the knowledge we tried to keep
from him. You got it from us ourselves. Don't flattery
use of doctor. We've known the principles of nuclear reaction
ever since Gretchwood Cretchwood, the Brazilian scientists discover of the equation.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
E equals MC square.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I see, then, why are you going to destroy us?
Because my friends are too dangerous. You know, too much
information could lead to our enemies, important principles, enemies. Oh yes,
yess I forgot.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You have no knowledge of contemporary affairs.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Beneath this building, deep in the earth, there is a
thorium piled going thorium you two thirty five would be better. Yes,
are scientists are working that out, the problem of separation
and so on.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's a highly secret project.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Naturally we call it only by the name Manhattan Project Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh no, it couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's too coincidental.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yet, I see, it's true.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You're going through exactly the same steps. In a year,
you'll have an atom bahm, then soon after a hydrogen bomb.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Then intercontinental missiles, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You seem to have great powers of prophecy as well
as great scientific knowledge.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
My friend, did you ever hear of a man named Einstein?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Albert Einstein?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Einstein? No, I never heard of him.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Then the futility of it struck me, the futility of
trying to place the guilt of all of us on
any one man, The futility of trying to do something
worth while by evil means, and finally, the futility of
trying to murder an idea. As they led me to
the execution cell where I now wait, the words of
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a man whose books were destroyed in the war.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Rang in my brain.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The fault, dear brutus, lies not with our stars, but
with ourselves. Fred Collins again, I'll have another word about
expine us one in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
About how you feel blue and miserable with a deep
down cold.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Every second someone takes us for the misers of a cold,
million more take for all.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
The second someone takes it for the misery of the.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
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Speaker 1 (17:39):
You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
which this month features kill Me with Kindness by Richard Wilson.
What would you do if you found yourself in a
place where your every whim was granted? Don't worry, you
wouldn't be the first.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
To spoil Utopia by attempting.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
To improve it. Galaxy Magazine on your new stand today
Tonight X minus one has brought you Target one, a
story from the pages of Galaxy, written by Frederick Paul
and adapted for radio by George Leffards.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Featured in our cast were Joseph Bell as Doctor Marin, Frank.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Silvera as President malcov Dean Almquist as Professor Waxman, Al
Collins as John Guy Repp as the official with Charles Webster.
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