[1] Prockter was inspired to create the program after hearing about a man who was freed from a life sentence in jail by the work of two newspaper reporters in Chicago.
Tonight, to Russ Wilson of the Des Moines Tribune goes the Pall Mall award for The Big Story.
The half-hour program was hosted by Robert Sloane, Norman Rose, Ben Grauer, and, finally, Burgess Meredith.
[9] A 1952 broadcast led to a lawsuit when Charles Bernstein sued NBC for $1,000,000 in damages, saying that the episode invaded his privacy.
However, a U. S. Court of Appeals ruled in 1956 that dramatizing events that were a matter of public record did not constitution invasion of privacy, and the case was thrown out.