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Timeline - 1967, page 2

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Jul 3, 1967

Portland (KBOO) - In Program Guide 117, a report on the Portland call letters

Jul 6, 1967

Portland (KBOO) - Request for 30 day extension to file Form 323 with FCC is requested.

Jul 17, 1967

Portland (KBOO) - Broadcasting Magazine

JSMF submits request for call letters KBOO.

Jul 24, 1967

Rev Paul Sawyer Autobiography - In preparation for broadcast, KRAB secures permission from KJR, KYAC, KOMO, and KOL that KRAB may rebroadcast certain of their programs on Aug 5 and 6, 1967, and certifies to the FCC that they have given permission.

Jul 25, 1967

Portland (KBOO) - FCC grants KRAB's application for a subcarrier of 23 Kilocycles. which will be used to send a signal to the Portland that will activate a cassette tape deck to play KBOO's ID, and at the same time mute the rebroadcast of KRAB's signal.

Jul 27, 1967

Cougar Mountain - Lorenzo writes to the FCC explaining that KRAB is "trapped in limbo", and needing to move studios and transmitter, and that it has been over a year since KRAB has heard anything from the FCC about the Cougar Mountain application.

Aug 3, 1967

Crud? Who was editing Seattle Times Radio Notes this week?

Described in the program guide for Aug 1, 1967, 10:00pm:

THE BUSINESS. In a sociology class at the University of Calif. at Santa Cruz, a former prostitute talks about her experiences in that trade and reflects on her motives, her customers and personal tastes. She speaks without bravado, with candor and, we think, intelligently. Her frankness involves some words that are frowned upon in "polite society." ANYONE OFFENDED BY SHORT DIRECT REFERENCES TO ANATOMY AND SEXUAL INTERCOURSE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE TO AVOID HEARING THIS PROGRAM. (Unless, of course . . . . . . )

Aug 5, 1967

Rev Paul Sawyer Autobiography - Paul Sawyer is scheduled to play the tapes of his Autobiography

Aug 7, 1967

Broadcasting Magazine reads KRAB program guide 114, May 209 to Jun 4, 1967, and borrows Lorenzo's "splotch of wine on the silken tie of the community". Unfortunately, that guide is missing from the archive (come on somebody!), but the essay can be found at page 77 of The Myrkin Papers, and has been digitized for your reading pleasure.

Also in this issue of Broadcasting is an advertisement for a First Class Engineer, because, as the application was approved for the station in St Louis, Jeremy Lansman is packing his bags and heading East.

Aug 9, 1967

Rev Paul Sawyer Autobiography - A listener to Paul's program writes a complaint and sends it to the FBI. It is forwarded by the FBI to the local FCC office, where R C Dietsch prepares an "Investigative Case Report". This is a document internal to FCC, and is not shared with KRAB or the JSMF. We have a copy now because the University of Iowa, custodian of former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson's papers shared it with us.

Sep 4, 1967

Portland (KBOO) - Broadcasting Magazine

It is official: FCC approves call letters for KBOO.

Sep 11, 1967

Sep 25, 1967

A letter is sent to the local FCC office notifying them that, due to a technical problem in the transmitter, KRAB is operating on reduced power, approximately 25% of normal.

Oct 4, 1967

A letter is sent to the local office of the FCC advising them that KRAB has returned to normal power

Oct 9, 1967

Nancy Keith is leaving town for an unspecified period of time, and is granted a leave of absence by the JSMF Board of Directors. The current Board of Directors is

Oct 9 and 10, 1967

Rev Paul Sawyer Autobiography - The JSMF Board of Directors, their attorney Michael Bader, and attorney Thomas Brucker representing Paul Sawyer meet with Assist. US Attorney Jerald E Olson. So far we have not located any correspondence or other documentation of the process that led to this meeting.

On Oct 10, Assist. US Attorney Olson said that he had discussed the case with US Attorney Eugene G Cushing, and "it was their conclusion and decision that prosecution in this matter would be declined." He stated the reason for not prosecuting was that "there had been no previous instances whereby the station was accused of using obscene language", and that "as soon as it was determined that obscene language was being used, the station exercised good judgment." In regard to Reverend Sawyer, "there was no intent to excite the prurient interests of the public."

Oct 30, 1967

Rev Paul Sawyer Autobiography - The FCC sends a letter to the JSMF notifying them that a complaint has been received regarding the program broadcast on Aug 5, 1967, and that JSMF has 20 days in which to respond to questions in the letter. This is the first official notice from the FCC we have located regarding this incident.

Nov 5, 1967

Marathon time.

Nov 15, 1967

Rev Paul Sawyer Autobiography - Lorenzo Milam responds to the FCC's Notice of Complaint. The letter is filed with the FCC on Nov 21, 1967.

Nov 27, 1967

At a regular Board meeting on Oct 30, 1967, the JSMF Board elects Pamela Plumb to the Board of Trustees.

Dec 4, 1967

Rev Paul Sawyer Autobiography - The FCC sends a letter acknowledging receipt of Lorenzo's letter of Nov 15, says that they no longer require a copy of the tape, and also says Lorenzo's letter and everything else will be placed in KRAB's file.

Dec 7, 1967

Skreen couldn't find anything else of interest in this guide?

Dec 9, 1967

Rev James Bevel - On Saturday Dec 9, 1967 KRAB Program Director Pam Plumb did the morning program. KRAB had recently received a tape from KPFA of a speech recorded on Nov 17, 1967 meeting on the UC Berkeley campus. The meeting was of the "Mobilization Against Political Suspensions" which was organized in response to some students being suspended from the University because they had participated in protest demonstrations on campus. The demonstrations and suspensions had been in the news during the previous three weeks. Pam decides to play the tape, and as indicated by the program log, did so shortly after signing on at 10:20am.

Dec 18, 1967

Rev James Bevel - KRAB is visited by FCC inspector, Frank T Roach, who tells Pam Plumb and Gary Wingert that there has been a complaint about the airing of the Bevel speech, and then "confiscates the tape" as well as the Dec 9 program log

Dec 18, 1967

Portland (KBOO) - What's Going on in Purtland - The Transmitter falled over, etc., etc., etc. .

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Dec 19, 1967

Rev James Bevel - FCC inspector Frank T Roach returns, bringing back the tape and program log, and now conducts a full official inspection of KRAB's facilities, and, according to Lorenzo, who may sometimes exaggerate, but doesn't lie, "scared the hell out of us"

Dec 20, 1967

Frank T Roach returns to the Seattle FCC office where he seems to have shared his experience visiting KRAB with R C Dietsch, FCC Engineer in Charge. Dietsch and Roach prepare an Investigative Case Report, which is an internal document of the FCC. It is not shared with KRAB or JSMF. We have a copy now because the University of Iowa, custodian of former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson's papers shared it with us. But in 1967 there was no official notice from the FCC of a complaint regarding Rev Bevel's speech.

Dec 26, 1967

Rev James Bevel - In program guide nbr 129 (for the 14 days starting Dec 18, 1967), which went to press about Dec 12 and was mailed about Dec 14, the Bevel speech was scheduled to be aired on Dec 26, and to be followed by Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech, but due to fear, trembling and prudence the broadcast was cancelled.

More to follow - The story Rev James Bevel, KRAB, and the FCC is not over

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