BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT; UNITED NATIONS RADIO PLAY; ORIGINAL MASTER SCRIPT 1957

[1957 BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT; UNITED NATIONS RADIO PLAY; ORIGINAL MASTER SCRIPT, GERALD KEAN, DIRECTOR-PRODUCER, GOHL OBHRAY (INDIA), SCRIPT WRITER] BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT – BEING THE LAWFUL STORY BEHIND A CERTAIN VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT by Gohl Obhrai, Directed and Produced by Gerald Kean, United Nations Department of Public Information, Radio Division, For Broadcast October 24, 1957, 50 page typescript heavily edited/extensively revised and director annotated in stiff manila binder with paste-on label on front " 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Master Production Script, Gerald Kean Oct. 24 '57", plus 15 front pages for notes on actor and other fees (e. g., score), music, sound, timing, and 2 pages of correspondence on points relating to publicity, " 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt' features as narrator, Quentin Reynolds, noted author…It traces the origin and growth of law the in the world with dramatic scenes showing man's early recognition of the need for order from ancient times to present-day society…Starting with the cave-man…culminating in the United Nations Charter [the 'certain very important document' referred to in the subtitle]", from an October 1957 letter to "Dear Program Director" by Perry Harten (hand-signed), U. S. Station Relations, United Nations Radio; NOTES: GOHL OBHRAI [Goverdhan Lal (Gohl) Obhrai], India, head of the U. N. press division…25 year veteran of the United Nations Secretariat…resigned in 1972 over disagreement with the Assembly's decision on the exclusion of two Chinese Nationalist (Taiwan) correspondents supported by Secretary General Kurt Waldheim…during WWII war correspondent for All India Radio (AIR) posted to Japan (online sources); GERALD KEAN (sometimes Keane), 1915-2002, during Gerald Kean's long and diverse career in the media during the heyday of radio and the emergence of television eventually supplanting radio, he held top positions not only with the United Nations, but also the U. S. military news division during World War II and radio programming in the decades after the War, notably working with the legendary Himan Brown in writing many radio scripts under different pen names for Brown's classic radio show "CBS Radio Mystery Theater"…"[Pierre Crenesse, U. S. director of the French Broadcasting System] got Gerald Kean, one of the top brass of the United Nations Radio, to work with him in an effort to make of 'This Is Paris' a disking that is as commercial as it is authentic…" (Gay 'Paris' Nostalgically In Vox's Vibrant, Authentic LP Wax, Saul Carson, Billboard, Feb. 23, 1952, p. 3); "Gerald Kean, acting director for United Nations Radio…" (Set Radio-TV Institute Plans, Billboard, March 8, 1952, p. 7); PERRY HARTEN, "former director of Voice of America in Europe" (Broadcasting Telecasting, January 28, 1957, online source); PROVENANCE: from a collection of Gerald Kean office and career memorabilia purchased in Fairfield County, CT /// CONDITION: well-preserved working radio play script.