1949-1999
| Submitted by: | Susan Stone | |||||||
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Press Release:
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Founded in 1949 by a World War II conscientious objector, KPFA-FM (94.1 FM Berkeley, California) was created as the first non-commercial,
listener-sponsored radio station in the United States. Certain events have set it apart from other broadcasting entities as a risk-taking, progressive, alternative media culture: during its half-century on the air, KPFA has endured investigation in the 1950s by Joseph McCarthy's House of Un-American Activities Committee, been dynamited off the air in the 1960s, seen the jailing of its station managers during coverage of the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s, been threatened with fire-bombings in the 1980s during a broadcast of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and closed down by its license holders, the Pacifica Radio Foundation, in 1999. | On the occassion of KPFA's 50th birthday, this radio documentary was created by AIR members Susan Stone, with Andrea Kissack, to highlight a half-century of broadcasts which have distinguished this pioneer, and many of its legendary programmers (including Timothy Leary, Pauline Kael, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Caspar Weinberger, Alice Walker, Kenneth Rexroth, John Rockwell).
Credits:
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Produced and narrated by Susan Stone and Andrea Kissack.
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For More Information:
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Visit KPFA's website
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Availability:
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Until 7 November 2000
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