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Jazz and Justice: Pacifica Radio Station WPFW Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary

by via Democracy Now
Friday, December 14, 2007 :Pacifica radio station WPFW, 89.3 FM, in Washington DC is celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend with an event featuring Harry Belafonte, Sonny Rollins, Howard Zinn, Dorothy Height and Dick Gregory. WPFW is considered the only Jazz and Justice station in the nation's capital.
It went on the air on February 28, 1977 and this is what listeners heard in the first hour of WPFW inaugural broadcast.

WPFW inaugural broadcast, courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives.

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