Staff Sergeant [Darryl Patterson] from Fort Monmouth, New Jersey:
“I’m going to send a message by Morse Code…I’m going to receive a message by
Morse Code…I’m going to do both at the same time!”
Sgt. Patterson is in the Signal Corps. Morse Code today is mostly the plaything of
amateur radio operators and other enthusiasts, but for more than a century, it
was the main means of telegraphic communication throughout the world. It would continue to be used in the United
States until the turn of the 21st century, and even today, the Army
trains a small number of officers in the skill.
Mrs. LC Giddens Jr and Mrs. Annie Jane McMillan from Hahira,
Georgia: “We were born in the same hour of the day…of the same day of the same
month…in the same room of the same house…and we were both delivered by the same
doctor.”
Mrs. Pearl Giddens (LC is her husband's name) and Mrs. McMillan are
mother and daughter.
Special Guest Johnny Carson is hooked
up to a lie detector while the panel asks questions blindfolded. When he lies, Garry sets the record straight,
as we watch the needles of the instrument move.
The man operating the equipment is Lincoln Zonn, a self-professed expert
on the subject who runs a security firm for businesses. Zonn would appear again in 1963 (
E530
) and
1966 (
E662
). Despite their common
appearances in popular culture, not to mention their use in actual legal
matters over the years, most experts in the scientific and psychological
communities generally regard polygraphs as unreliable.
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