 From August 30th, 1949, the actor playing the telegraph operator was Parker Fenley, who also played New Englander Titus Moody over on the Fred Allen Show, and starred as the father Henry on the radio soap opera Mary Foster, the Editor's Daughter. Well, I'm Greg Bell, and lead performer Raymond Massey played abolitionist John Brown in the 1940 film Santa Fe Trail, and that same year earned an Oscar nomination playing the 16th U.S. President in the motion picture Abe Lincoln in Illinois. 22 years later, Massey would play Honest Abe again in the film How the West Was Won.