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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDick Bolin Reporting Transcript, WTAW First 100 YearsProject HOLD WTAW Radio Dick Bolin | Former A&M Student & WTAW News Reporter Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Laura Quezada | Transcriber 00:00:01 Dick Bolin (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947… 00:00:04 Speaker 2 Now let's go to the bonfire site where WTAW's Tom Turpin…. 00:00:07 Speaker 3 WTAW election night coverage. All 8 voting centers in Brazos County have been counted… [Unintelligible sports broadcaster with crowd of screaming fans] 00:00:14 Speaker 4 Today on WTAW, we're joining with businesses from across the Brazos Valley to support our … 00:00:20 Speaker 5 …1620 WTAW. ------------------------------- 00:00:22 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. I met Dick Bolin 22 years ago at a reunion of WTAW and battalion workers. Dick was an A&M student in the post-World War II era and a news reporter then on WTAW out of the YMCA building on campus. He brought with him some old, very old records. 78 RPM records with recordings of his broadcast from back then. We the infomaniacs had to call out to our listeners for anyone who might have a record player that played 78 RPM. It didn't take long for a listener to loan us one and we were able to listen then, and you can listen now to Dick Bolin reporting 1940s politics. 00:01:10 (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Here's the latest news from the Associated Press. Former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, says the GOP has a good chance to name the next president. Stassen told British newsmen, that the election depends on the manner in which Republican leaders meet their future responsibilities. Stassen said he regarded the recent Chicago election as significant in the light that it threw on the relations of the GOP and the Democratic parties in one city, he added. And that's the news till now. 00:01:48 (TT) The date again, April 24th, 1947. Dick Bolin reporting. Priceless stuff on WTAW, the First 100 Years.