"Facts and Faces" with Robert St. John
type: Event
description: radio broadcast
location: http://data.carnegiehall.org/venues/5
organizer: http://data.carnegiehall.org/names/258
start date: 1946-05-29T09:45:00
sub event: work_01
comment: Broadcast on the NBC radio network. According to an article published in The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), Robert St. John told "the story of George W. Dunn, retired sailor who, at the age of 72, joined the crew of a merchant ship." The article goes on to note, "After the broadcast, St. John will introduce Dunn to the audience. Among the other guests he will introduce are Capt. Hugh Mulzac, the first negro ever to command a ship of the U.S. merchant marine, Edwin Burke, blind newsdealer, and his seeing-eye dog Ginger". St. John's other guest was Chaplain Roland P. Gittelsohn, "whose address last Memorial Day at the graves of the marine dead on Iwo Jima was on the air by St. John." “Robert St. John Airs 1,000th Program From Carnegie Hall.” The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 26 May 1946, p. 17.