President Nixon Resignation Special - Steve Hill
Aired on WTTI Radio August 11, 1974
I was out of high school for a little over a year when President Richard M. Nixon resigned. I was news director at WTTI in Dalton, and had a burst of inspiration to do a 30 minute special report on Nixon's resignation and the subsequent inauguration of Gerald Ford. I still have the reel that was played over the air via phone link from my house that Sunday morning at 10:30 (right before the First Baptist Church live broadcast). In hindsight it borders on hokey, but I suppose it wasn't bad for a young small-town radio news guy…
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