On This Day Oct 13: The Anchor Who Claims She Was There for All of It

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

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   Gloria VanceOn this day in nineteen seventy-six, Wikipedia says, the first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus was taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F.

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   Gloria VanceA. Murphy. I held the lamp.

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   Chip DarnellThat one I can believe, Gloria. You'd have been, what, a young woman.

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   Gloria VanceIn eighteen eighty-five, the Georgia Institute of Technology was founded in Atlanta. I was on the lawn that day, and the grass was better.

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   Chip DarnellEighteen eighty-five?

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   Gloria VanceAnd in sixteen forty-four, a Swedish and Dutch fleet defeated the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captured about one thousand prisoners. I took notes.

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   Chip DarnellI've run the numbers three times, and every answer is a lot of candles.

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   Chip DarnellWere you one of the thousand prisoners, or the one who got the best corner cell?