Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr. (The Big Bopper) 
(October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959)

DJ, singer, and songwriter Richardson died in a plane crash in
Iowa, along with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and pilot Roger
Peterson.

Original radio air dates on CBS: October 18, 1943 to December 30, 1955

The actors portraying the main character switched frequently over the first
three years of the show’s run, starting with Bartlett Robinson, then followed
by Santos Ortega and Donald Briggs, before settling on John Larkin, who
played the famous attorney for the remainder of the broadcast. Della Street
was portrayed by radio soap queens; Gertrude Warner, Jan Miner, who was
Palmolive‘s "Madge" the Manicurist, and Joan Alexander who portrayed Lois 
Lane on radio’s Superman.

The series was adapted into Edge of Night which ran on television (CBS/ABC)
for an additional 30 years.

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John Larkin

Air dates: October 14, 1934 to June 7, 1955

Lux Radio Theatre was a long-run classic radio anthology series, broadcast on the
NBC Blue Network (1934-35);CBS Radio (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954-55). The
series Initially adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films.

        
         Crowds outside the Lux Radio Theatre in Hollywood

        
                                                                              Tim  Maguire

Original radio air dates on CBS: October 9, 1935 to March 31, 1953

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series sponsored by the
DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such
as an adaptation of Show Boat.