Pacifica honors a founder of KPFT : a tribute to Larry Lee / produced by Larry Josephson.

Program Title:
Pacifica honors a founder of KPFT : a tribute to Larry Lee / produced by Larry Josephson.
PRA Archive #: 
SZ0551
Description: 

Biographical documentary of Larry Lee, who died of AIDS in San Francisco in late March, 1990. Lee, a member of both wire services, and editor for the Texas Observer, an investigative reporter for three TV stations, and an author of two books (on Jack Kerouac and William Saroyan) was a political and social activist who thrived amidst adversity. This program explores his role in the founding of Pacifica station KPFT in Houston, his reactions to the early bombings of that station by the Ku Klux Klan, and his views about the role of listener sponsored radio in mass media.|PACIFICA HONORS A FOUNDER OF KPFT : A TRIBUTE TO LARRY LEE / produced by Larry Josephson. Biographical documentary of Larry Lee, who died of AIDS in San Frnacisco in late March, 1990. Lee, a member of both wire services, and editor for the "Texas Observer," an investigative reported for three TV stations, and an author of two books (on Jack Kerouac and William Saroyan) was a political and social activist who thrived amidst adversity. This program explores his role in the founding of Pacfica station KPFT in Houston, his reactions to the early bombings of that station by the Ku Klux Klan, and his views about the role of listener sponsored radio in mass media. RECORDED: Apr. 1990.

Date Recorded on: 
Apr. 1990.
Date Broadcast on: 
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Item duration: 
1 reel (35 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.|35:00
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1990.
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