RUTH LYONS' "50-50 CLUB" (WLW-RADIO) (11/22/63)

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Channel: David Von Pein's JFK Channel · 2013 · Entertainment

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The "50-50 Club", hosted by the pioneering Ruth Lyons, was a popular daytime variety program that aired live from Cincinnati, Ohio, every weekday in the 1950s and 1960s.

The program was simulcast on both WLW-Radio and WLWT-TV in Cincinnati.

This is the complete 90-minute "50-50 Club" show that originally aired at 12 o'clock noon on Friday, November 22, 1963.

Two minutes after the conclusion of this program, the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. The first bulletins concerning the shooting are included at the end of the video.

Audio only. Via Cincinnati's WLW-Radio.

RELATED LINKS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Lyons_%28broadcaster%29
http://Amazon.com/Ruth-Lyons-Christmas-Music/review/R13S7W8KJ7VWZM

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