Jean Shepherd - “A Christmas Story“

On Christmas Eve of 1974, Jean Shepherd reads from the story that would later become the movie, “A Christmas Story“, live on his long-running WOR-AM radio show. The short story was then called (in Playboy), “Duel In The Snow, Or, Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid“ -- also a chapter from Shepherd’s 1966 book, “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash“. [Audio is public domain. Photo © by Fred W. McDarrah.]