Barney Keep with Bob Hazen of The Benj. Franklin Savings
& Loan Association who also had a radio show on KEX.
On February 14, 1979 BARNEY KEEP, KEX Morning Radio icon
broadcast his last KEEP TIME show, from Portland’s Civic
Theater. The last TODAY’S CHUCKLE that morning…”Old
disc jockeys never retire , They just go off the record."
Byron George “Barney” Keep (1917 – 2021)
On Valentine’s Day, 1990, 3.7 billion miles away from the sun,
the Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photograph of Earth.
The picture, known as Pale Blue Dot, depicts our planet as a
nearly indiscernible speck roughly the size of a pixel.
Launched on September 5, 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 were
charged with exploring the outer reaches of our solar
system.
It passed by Jupiter in March of 1979 and Saturn the following
year. The gaps between the outer planets are so vast that it
was another decade before it passed by Neptune and arrived
at the spot where it was to take a series of images of the
planets, known as the "Family Portrait" of our solar system.
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002)
On February 13, 2002, Jennings died in his sleep from
complications of diabetes at his home in Chandler,
Arizona, aged 64.
Waylon Jennings is considered one of the pioneers
of the outlaw movement in country music.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston
(August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)
Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers
from the mid-1980s to late 1990s,was found dead in the
bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly
Hills, California on February 11, 2012.
Houston’s death was the result of accidental drowning;
heart disease and cocaine, which was found in her
system, were determined to be contributing factors.
Released November 26, 1996.
