Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case (EP4862)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio – EP4862 "Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case"

Podcast: The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Host: Adam Graham
Episode: Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case (EP4862)
Date: December 9, 2025

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Overview

This episode features the audition recording of a Golden Age radio drama episode titled "Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case," which later evolved into the famous series "The Big Story." Host Adam Graham introduces and provides insightful commentary on the program, which dramatizes the true story of a newspaper reporter’s dogged investigation into a wrongful conviction case. The Majczek case served as the inspiration for multiple adaptations, including the film "Call Northside 777" and the "Defense Attorney" pilot. The episode examines the power—and pitfalls—of press-driven justice.

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Main Content & Key Discussion Points

1. Introduction & Background ([02:08])

• Adam Graham sets the context, noting this is an audition (pilot) for what would become "The Big Story", aired as "Feature Assignment."
• The case dramatized became the basis for "Call Northside 777" and other adaptations.
• Quote:

  “You will hear that it was originally for CBS, though The Big Story would become an NBC staple … the working title for the pilot was Feature Assignment.” (Adam Graham, [03:26])

2. The Majczek Case Drama

Opening Scene: Setting the Stage ([04:56])

• Introduces the framework: stories of brave newspaper reporters.
• Narrates the 1932 murder of a Chicago cop and resulting investigation.

The Reporter’s Assignment ([08:32])

• Reporter Jimmy McGuire receives a mysterious reward ad for information about the old murder.
• He’s tasked with investigating the ad’s origin, leading to the convict’s mother.

Investigative Process ([10:43]–[23:41])

• The timeline jumps 13 years ahead. The reporter interviews the mother, scrapes together meager clues, visits the wife, digs through old clips:

  • Visiting the mother, who is a scrubwoman tirelessly trying to exonerate her son.
  • Uncovering possible witnesses and reviewing court documents.
  • Key witness, Vera Wallach, is tracked down after considerable effort.

• Quote:

  “You have to wade through looking for the truth in a pile of legal garbage.” (Reporter narration, [20:49])

• Discovers inconsistencies with police procedure and affidavits—key evidence was mishandled, timelines don’t add up.

Key Witness Confrontation & Breakthrough ([22:48]–[25:11])

• The reporter confronts Vera Wallach about her original identification and the strange delay by the police.

• After pressure, Vera admits her original testimony wasn’t truthful, finally releasing the truth that exonerates Majczek.

  • Notable Quote:

    “All right, all right, I’m scared. Ah, what else? Me, his mother—the cops, a state attorney.” (Vera, [23:41])

Resolution and Aftermath ([26:13]–[28:31])

• Majczek is freed; the reporter reflects on the emotional toll of relentless pursuit.
• Ceremony scene: the Governor of Illinois presents the reporter with an award for his work.
  • Quote:

    “You uncovered the facts which enabled me to grant a full pardon to Joseph Majczek.” (Governor Dwight Green, [28:55])

3. Host’s Commentary and Real-World Analysis ([33:16])

• Adam Graham discusses the veracity of the radio dramatization:

  • Stresses the actual case involved two convicted men, but media and public attention focused almost entirely on Majczek.
  • Points out "Call Northside 777" altered details for cinematic effect (e.g., the famous photo-negative clue was fictional).
  • Notes the original case involved police corruption and perjured testimony.

• Critique of media-driven justice:

  “[The other man] wasn’t a media cause célèbre and didn’t have a mother scrubbing floors for him, so he ended up sitting in jail for another five years.” (Adam Graham, [35:12])

• Cites that both men were eventually compensated by the state legislature but with differing amounts.

4. Listener Feedback ([36:18])

• Responds to listener Mildred’s comments about previous episodes’ audio difficulties.
• Notes improvements in audio quality for future episodes.

5. Patreon Thanks ([37:11])

• Thanks longtime Patreon supporter Jim.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "You have to wade through looking for the truth in a pile of legal garbage." (Reporter Narration, [20:49])
• "You uncovered the facts which enabled me to grant a full pardon to Joseph Majczek." (Governor Green, [28:55])
• "The other man wasn’t a media call celeb and didn’t have a mother scrubbing floors for him, so he ended up sitting in jail for another five years." (Adam Graham, [35:12])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |--------------|-----------------------------------------------------| | 02:08 | Adam Graham’s introduction & context | | 04:56 | Beginning of the Majczek Case radio drama | | 08:32 | Assignment to reporter & start of the investigation | | 10:43 | Visit to the convict’s mother | | 20:49 | Reflection on the messy truth of the case | | 22:48–25:11 | Climax: witness confrontation and truth revealed | | 28:31 | Award ceremony and governor’s speech | | 33:16 | Adam Graham’s commentary and historical analysis | | 36:18 | Listener feedback | | 37:11 | Patreon appreciation |

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Tone & Style

The episode maintains a classic radio drama tone—suspenseful, earnest, and rooted in period journalism. Adam Graham’s commentary is knowledgeable and warm, balancing admiration for old radio with honest critique of historical whitewashing and the dangers of popular media in justice.

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For New Listeners

This episode is an excellent showcase of both Golden Age radio storytelling and real-world case analysis. It offers:

• A gripping dramatization of a classic wrongful conviction case,
• The complex, sometimes troubling relationship between journalism, justice, and public opinion,
• Insightful historical and behind-the-scenes context from the host.

No prior knowledge is necessary—Adam Graham’s commentary is accessible and educational for newcomers and long-time fans alike.

Transcript

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host Adam Graham. In a moment we'll get into this week's episode of the Big Story sort of out. I'll talk a little bit about that in a moment, but first I do want to encourage you. If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. I also want to highlight our other podcast. In particular, I'm bringing up the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio. We have more than 40 episodes there of solid adventure programming, including science fiction with Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, the courageous adventures of the OSS in Cloak and Dagger, and classic adventures from literature. An adventure ahead. We have so much more coming. You can follow us at the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio wherever you get your podcast from. Well, I did want to go ahead and clarify that. I came across the fact that there are actually more episodes of the Big Story out there and I thought that I'd had the latest set, but looks like there was some additional research done in 2022. Included more files and among them are two episodes that are before the latest episode we played. So we are going to go ahead and play those. The first One is actually the audition recording, which was made for networks and sponsors. And you will hear that it was actually originated for cbs. Even though the Big Story itself became an NBC staple. The working title for the series with the pilot was Feature Assignment. For the pilot, the series leaned into a familiar story that was really loved in the entertainment industry. It would become the basis of the movie called Northside777. It would also in five years, be used as the basis for the pilot episode of Defense Attorney, then known as the Defense rest, starring Mercedes McCambridge. But here with the audition date of February 5, 1946, is the Maschek case.

[D]

Raven and Hedrick present.

Teacher assignments.

Each week we bring you a new and unique dramatic program. True and authentic stories of newspaper reporters on feature assignments. Tonight, the map check case. Straight from the front page of The Chicago Times, October 18, 1945. By line James McGuire.

Numbered in the ranks of the fourth estate, enlisted in the civilian army, whose weapons are the copy pencil and the typewriter, are thousands of men and women, faithful reporters for Fox and Tren and fair and pool the people of the press.

For them, it is the high point of a lifetime when the chance comes to break through the namelessness of a baby beast with a story that earns the newspaper man his mark of recognition. The byline. In this program you will meet in person the man behind the byline of tonight's true stories of Joseph Master. These then are the authentic stories of the men behind the byline, the stories of reporters on feature assignments. I asked you first slide your feeding outside programs of one William D. Lunder, a traffic cop on beauty in Chicago. South side. Year 1932, the day December 9th. Weather Bitter cold. You stomp off, you mean at a lumpy of 6ft towards the lukewarm majesty into the nearby delicatessen.

You yourself say when you slam the door behind you.

That's winged off the lake at threes of years Alpha brass, Lucas.

I still say coffee.

Here's the crime.

That's your truck outside by the fire plug. I got a good mind to slap a ticket on you.

What do you want me to do on a day like this? Freeze up some feet in my face?

All you see is the first to take a dive under the table. All you hear is Vera scream. But you never see two rods snake out.

Ever go into that?

The name goes up on the tablet at 1121 State Street. History.

Remember that gun job for the story behind that murder is tonight's feature assignment.

Now, 13 years from now, September 1945. We're in the city room of the Chicago Times. And you have a light to be there. You are a reporter. There are a light man named.

Anywhere he wants to send you, you go. He hands you a slip of copy paper with a clipping. Hey, Jimmy, weren't you a private detective before you came to it? Yeah, that's right. Well, then this ought to be right up your alley.

Jimmy boy. That's the angle. There's a guy doing 99 years in Joliet for that job right now. So somebody's wrong. Either the cops who sent him up or whoever put this ad in. So check in with him. Maybe it'll make an inside teacher. Okay. Yeah.

Bottle lettuce for a 13 year old murder it is. But check it. From now on you're on your own.

That's what you like to hear. Fresh out of the Air Force. You don't like sitting around answering phones and checking the fire department on your own. Thanks to you. So you start to work. Or you check the book that lists telephone numbers first and the names of subscribers after. You find out.

5, 2, 11 Southwest. Well, that's wool on the dwarf.

How do you spell that?

What you say she did? Scrub woman. Where did this scrub woman get $5,000? Why put up that kind of. Maybe I talk too much. But I tell you how she gets $5,000. Scrubbing. You leave a bad living place with a poor place where scrubbing and halfway.

Sore. You take a scrap of garbage off the curb and you remember something a cop once told you about crime and poverty. Garbage, you said. Where there's no garbage. Rats don't breathe. They grabbed the taxi over but the shining street across the bridge. The roller to the night's.

Why are you afraid of the cops?

I never go to sea.

12 years I paid.

$5,000 to get my children out of school. I offer re.

You want to carry the pail of soapy black water.

Follow her to her closet.

She reaches in, takes out a hat. Black bag. Out of the bag tumble a practical sheet.

What happened for you?

Yes.

Believers standing there walk back to the office.

Of how they just race her up.

Hard to hear the bell when the bridge goes up to an equator to.

Back in the office.

Thank you.

Anything in it? She doesn't matter. Huh? Who's what? The woman who put the ad in. She's the mother of the man in Joliet. All right. Lightly. Four, six. Where the box below the pole. Page one it is. Karen. But hey, Karen. Turn me loose on the story, will you? The angle Is she sure has changed. Want to pay all of these? Julie, look, if you got anything on it, I'll let it from the guy. I'll read it for you. No, no, no. No time. Tell you what. Write the old lady up. Well, it's your story, so stay with it. Do it your way. It's your feature assembly. And make it good. You mean a great story series. Any way it works out.

This many years.

First check the newspaper mirror. Get out all there is.

It tells the story. The yellowing clips tell you. December 10, 1932.

Youth seed in cop death. Dec. 23, 1932. Woman identified cop murder suspect. Editorial June 1933. With the eyes of the nation focused on Chicago's forthcoming World's Fair. It is a disgrace that five unsolved murders. The people of this state demand a cleanup.

The first question you want to see is.

She's offering a $5,000 reward.

Dear Ma. What I'm going to write now is how it happens. See what you can do with this, Ma, because I'm going crazy up here.

I believe your story now, but I gotta prove it.

If I can. Believe me. I don't want those story now. Tell me, is there anything in your letter I ought to work on first? Yeah. The woman. What woman?

No. Where is she? I don't know. Maybe. My.

What were you going to say? My. My girl, my wife. Come on, come on, I'm trying to help. I said skip it. Just find that woman, that's all. I got no wife anymore. Just.

You. Don't blame the boy for not just something can snap in a man with 13 years behind.

Rest of his life.

All you have to go on is his own word. So your work is cut out for you. First you find out from his mother he is married.

What happened? You find out girl. And after the trial.

Wow. You always feel so glad to see me. I can say it. Then just before the bell rang, he asked me.

I didn't do it. You know that. I was with you all that day.

All right, divorce me. Go ahead, divorce me. Anything you want. Or anything you want. But get about me. I did.

But he mentioned a woman. The one who identified.

You know what she is.

Goes on like that for days, weeks, time. Five and a half months of seeing people. Everybody whose name turns up in the cliff. The things you learn. The history of the case is like a garbage heap. You have to wait through looking for the truth in a pile of legal garbage. Find the truck driver. Well, I know it works me to put a finger on it. Hold of your wallet. The court clerk. Mr. Keep my name out of it. I got a job with you. But I heard the judge say. After the jury. Simon Gilly. I heard him say he was going to get Magic and you. But the judge, he died 10 years ago. The court's stenographer, the lawyer, he had something funny about it. Matchuk wanted to go on the stand himself, but his lawyer wouldn't let him. Finally, you've run down every last.

Only one more thing to do. So you do it. You go down to the state attorney's office and you ask for the file.

Ask again. Stall. You ask again. Finally. Get it. Sit down with it.

One thing hits you like a fist between the eyes. A date. Top of a statement. December 23, 1943. Affidavit of will Wallace identifying those as mattress.

Just go in and ask if it wasn't very important. Larry, do me a favor, will you? Sure, Jimmy. What do you want? See if you can find out when he arrested the guy who killed London. Sure. Wait.

Here it is. Natchez Joseph arrested 5:45am December 22nd. 22nd. 22nd. See? Okay.

So now you've got to find Vera Wallach. Check bars. You haunt the lineup. You hang around Polish churches. Where isn't? You question and you dig. One day you find her and the cheat grew fat. Scared, suspicious. Again and again you ask her. Come on, Vera. What happened between the time they picked him up and the time you identified him? I told you a million times.

Listen, I'm a reporter. I know when cops pick up a suspect, they hustle in front of witnesses. They don't wait a couple of days for people to forget. They hustle. You trying to tell me the cops waited so long to put the finger on magic when it was a cop who was killed? Hell, what went on those two days, December 22 and 23?

Now, look, if he's guilty, nothing you can say can make it any worse for him. If he's innocent, you can make it up for him with just one sentence. No. No.

What are you scared of? Who's paying?

I don't know. Nothing. You're scared. All right, all right, I'm scared. Ah, what else? Me, his mother.

The cops, a state attorney.

Listen, girl, I don't look like you, but believe me, what I stand for is bigger than the cops in the state of Kentucky. The paper, Villa, the papers can make them and break them. All they need is the truth. Now you're scared of the cops. Why?

[E]

Why? Because.

[D]

They. What, Vera? What did they do?

Why not Vera? You afraid they'll rest you for lying on a witness stand.

Well, that's it.

Don't you know what the statute of limitations is? They can't arrest you. It's too late. It's too long ago. But it's not too late to tell the truth now. Vera. What did they do?

Take your time. Go quietly to the office.

It was definitely established today.

He witnessed a 13 year old murder case.

Mack was.

Innocent of.

Killing right settler for a long time. You hand it to Kara. He looks at it and asks you. I give it. What's your middle initial? Haven't got one. Hey, wait a minute. Where are you going? Don't you want to see the edition come out? The paper's calling the best lawyers in the state. We're getting immediate action from the board of parties. Hey, where you going?

[E]

For a walk.

[D]

Karen, I feel like I've been working that case for 99 years.

What, your head's empty? Vaguely. You realize something. When the city editor asked you for your middle initial, that was his way of letting you know your name was going up in lights. A byline. Still, there's something more important. You can't figure out what it is. So you did. Down by the lakeshore in Baxtercote. Back into town night after night. And one night you find yourself outside the Magic house. At the door you meet a fellow in a cheap suit. Oh, you're out. Yeah.

Forget it.

If anybody should come with me, it's you. If you want to.

Come on. Silence.

You climb the narrow stairs with magic who used to be 83561.

It's going to be all right.

Ladies and gentlemen, at this moment in the Executive Mansion at Springfield, Illinois, a distinguished group of public officials and newspaper men have gathered at an informal dinner to honor a reporter, James McGuire of Chicago Times. Teacher Assignment now takes you to Springfield. The next voice you will hear will be that of the Honorable Dwight H. Reeve, Governor of the State of Illinois.

James McGuire. Officials of the State of Illinois and of the City of Chicago. Members of the editorial staff of the Chicago Times. Ladies and gentlemen, we have as our honored guest tonight an outstanding representative of the American press. A man who, through fearless search for the truth, was instrumental in righting a great wrong. James McGuire, you uncovered the facts which enabled me to grant a full pardon to Joseph Natchez. People of the State of Illinois are grateful for you. For you helped to restore an innocent man to society and to his home. Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to present to you Mr. James McGuire of the Chicago Times. Thank you.

Thank you, Governor Green. It's a great honor to be your guest here tonight. And I'm mighty happy that Karen Walsh, Terry colangelo and Jack McPhail are here with me. They deserve to share fully in the credit. Karen gave me the Feature Assignment. Curry spotted the Wantab in the first case. Jack liked it with me for months, tracking down 500 documents and 40 personal interviews. Thank you very much, all of you.

Jimmy. Jimmy. I take real pleasure in presenting to you the Feature Assignment Award of Merit. Yours is the eternal vigilance that protects our American freedom.

Thank you, Governor.

You are listening to Feature Assignment, a new program bringing you the true and authentic stories of the men and women behind the bylines of your newspapers and dedicated to those people of the press whose earnestness, honesty and courage ever strengthen the cornerstone of our democracy. Fruit and a free press. Stories of newspapermen on.

Teacher Assignment.

Listen again at this same time, same station next week when Teacher Assignment will bring you the true story of a 22 year old cub reporter who entered jail for his feature assignment.

Feature Assignment is a copyrighted feature and was brought to you from the New York studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Feature Assignment was produced by Clayton and Hedrick, written by Alan Sloan, original music by Ray Block and his orchestra, and directed by John Deets. The narrator was Barry Kroger. Her announcer was Frank Geller.

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Welcome back. Alas, this will be the only episode I don't have a cast list for. Because we have cast lists. Because we have scripts obtained as part of the tobacco settlement and as this Episode wasn't sponsored by anybody. There's no particular reason to have scripts. As for the episode itself, it's pretty close to the real life cat case. And unlike the actual Big Story series as it launched, this episode didn't change the man wrongfully convicted of the crime.

And it also raises a really big difference with. Call Northside 777 Cole. Northside 777 had a really cool clue in order to resolve the case involving a flip newspaper negative and revealing the real time. And it's a cool technological reveal for the time and certainly it just makes good viewing even now. But in the real life case, it was just garden variety police corruption which couldn't be portrayed on the screen screen and wasn't as good filmmaking. But it's what happened. It also would have probably run afoul of the hayscoat. I should also say it's not the biggest falsification in the name of telling a good story. One of the greatest noir films based on a true story ends with this iconic scene of the killer being shot down in the sewer. In real life, he not only outlived all the detectives, but ended up getting released and outlived nearly everyone who made the film. The one key point that this radio adaptation misses, as does nearly every adaptation of this story, and I think everyone I've encountered, is that there were two men convicted of the crime and the evidence against both were equally perjured. Unfortunately, this illustrates the risk of outsourcing justice to the newspapers, as the other man wasn't a media call celeb and didn't have a mother scrubbing floors for him. So he ended up sitting in jail for another five years. At one point, the governor offered to commute his sentence to 75 years, which would have meant that he would have been eligible for parole. And in 1958, the man in question, Theodore Mansewitz, was not happy with this offer and refused it, which turned out to be the right choice as he was freed legally on a writ in 1950 and both men were compensated by the legislature, with.

Man sequence getting 14,000 more than magic. Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback and we go to YouTube where Mildred comments her first impression on the 13th key. I've never heard of this show until today. So it was basically a true crime show of the 1940s. I'm a big fan of true crime. I think that's accurate. Although there are some details changed, quite a few actually in some cases. So maybe true ish crime might be more apt. Some of the music was too loud. I could barely hear the narrator. Different parts were hard to hear, making it difficult to know who's who and what was what. I will have to listen to this again.

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This.

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Thanks for the up. Thanks for the upload. Well, thanks so much. Appreciate the comment, Mildred. Sorry you had a problem with the audio, which I don't think was the worst, but probably was a bit middle of the road in terms of quality. Given that it was recorded in an odd way, I can understand why some listeners might have an issue with it. I am hopeful. This particular set that we're going to be using now has quite a few upgrades, so hopefully we won't have as many sound quality issues. But do apologize for those that come up because I know it's frustrating when you can't hear the program. All right, well, now it is time to thank our Patreon Supporter of the Day. And I want to thank Jim, patreon Supporter since March 2018, currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of $7.14 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Jim. That will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel and mark the notification bell. We will be back next Tuesday with another episode of the Big Story. But join us back here tomorrow for Broadway's My Beat, where.

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Danny?

Danny. What do you want? Dr. Sinski's report. He was busy on another. He asked me to bring it to you. So leave it on my desk, all right?

You're not gonna look at it, Danny?

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Why?

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I know what's in it. I thought I did too, till I glanced it over on the way to your office. You better take a look at it. You're so eager. I don't want to spoil it for you. Tell me about it, Mugavin. You tell me, huh? Mugavan. We've had other kids and this one's no different. That all, Mugavin? That's what I've been trying to tell you. This one is different. Just what you saw when you first found her. That's what's in the report. Beaten, skull fractured with the butt of a gun. Nothing else. Then give me a motive. Give me another motive. Why a 14 year old child should.

Glover speaking. Sergeant Tartaglia at this end. Homicide. Danny.

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Woman in backyard of House at 1845 West 11.

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People named Murray upstairs wants you on it.

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Shall I tell him you're agreeable?

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Danny? Tell him. I'm.

Bring me a motive. Mugaban upstairs wants me to run an errand.

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I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your comments to box Thirteenreatetectives.net follow us on Twitter at radiodetectives and check us out on Instagram instagram.com greatdetectives from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.

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