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Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:
Andrew Crews
25 September 2021
1922 Radio station WOAI ("World Of Agricultural Information") transmits its first radio broadcast. It is the third radio station in San Antonio.
1960 "The Flintstones" premieres on ABC television affiliate KONO-TV Channel 12 at 7 p.m. The primetime cartoon was created in color but broadcast in black & white until the third season. They are also sponsored by Winston cigarettes!
1965 Atheist Madelyn Murray O'Hair, noted for her 1963 Supreme Court case banning prayer in schools, is arrested in San Antonio after a flight from Mexico City. She is taken into custody and jailed under 11 warrants from Baltimore charging her with aggravated assault on policemen. She was arrested at the Greyhound bus terminal after police missed her at the airport.
This press release was produced by the San Antonio Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.
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