WLAC: A Radio Station That Helped Change America

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Stories I Should Have Told Sooner

I am not sure when I first heard the 50,000 watt WLAC radio station in Nashville, TN. My best guess is about 1955 or 1956. I do know where: the upstairs bedroom of my very close cousins Ed and Tony. Ed was almost a year older than I was, and Tony was almost a year younger. At night Ed would tune an old tube radio to 1510 on the AM dial. What I heard was nothing short of amazing. WLAC was a whol...

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