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GUEST: Screenwriter Lewis Colick<\/strong><\/p>\n

The radio news continues as the miners descend in the elevator.<\/p>\n

“…to be tracking it very soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are told that Sputnik will be visible to the naked eye…<\/em><\/p>\n

about an hour after sunset and an hour before dawn…<\/em><\/p>\n

as it traverses the October sky over the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

What the beeping signal means we still don’t know.<\/em><\/p>\n

It may be nothing more– “<\/em><\/p>\n

TITLE: “BASED ON A TRUE STORY”<\/p>\n

“Jailhouse Rock” plays. Roy Lee, driving a 1937 Plymouth De-Luxe, pulls up in front of the Hickam home. Homer opens the car door and jumps in the back of the car.<\/p>\n

“Let’s go, Roy Lee,” says Homer. “It’s almost nine!”<\/p>\n

“Sure are in a hurry to get yourself killed,” says Roy Lee.<\/p>\n

“No kiddin’. There are easier ways to commit suicide, Homer,” says O’Dell, in the front seat.<\/p>\n

“Will you just step on it, Roy Lee?” says Homer.<\/p>\n

“I am<\/span> steppin’ on it!” replies Roy Lee. The boys laugh.<\/p>\n

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Minute 003: Based on a True Story<\/a><\/blockquote>