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KPFT Targeted: Bullet Pierces Studio Window of Pacifica's Houston Station
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 :
A bullet pierces the studio window of Pacifica Radio station KPFT. It's not the first time the Houston station has been targeted. KPFT is the only radio in the country whose transmitter was blown up twice - shortly after it went on the air in 1970 - by the Ku Klux Klan.
A drive-by shooting targeted Pacifica Radio station KPFT in Houston early on Monday morning. A single bullet blasted through a Plexiglass window into the station's studio at 1 a.m. No one was injured in the shooting but the bullet came within 18 inches of Mary Thomas. She was a hosting a music program at the time.
Station manager Duane Bradley said the shooting might have been political. If so, it would not be the first politically motivated attack on KPFT. More than 35 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan blew up the station's transmitters twice within the Houston station's first year on the air.
In October 1970, five months after the first bombing, KPFT's transmitter was bombed for a second time just as the station was broadcasting folk legend Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's restaurant."
We are now joined from Houston, Texas by two people from KPFT:
- Duane Bradley, station manager of Pacifica radio station KPFT.
- Mary Thomas, programmer on KPFT.
For more information:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid...
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