Mike Gracia

Dr. Frank Conrad (above), assistant chief engineer of Westinghouse Electric, developed the technology that made KDKA Radio possible. He constructed a transmitter and installed it in a garage near his home in 1916. The station was licensed originally as 8XK with a power of 100 watts.

A makeshift studio located in a shack atop one of the Westinghouse Electric buildings in East Pittsburgh. 

On Tuesday, November 2, 1920, election night, four men (pictured above) compiled election returns received via wired-telephone from the newsroom at the Pittsburgh
Post newspaper. It is estimated that between 500 and 1000 listeners heard this
broadcast of the world’s first commercial radio station.

Harold W. Arlin, first full-time KDKA announcer

(Possible reenactment)

Ross Simpson

Willie Hugh Nelson is 80 years old today

John Adams served as the first Vice President of the United States under
George Washington from April 21, 1789 to March 4, 1797. He later became
the second U.S. President from 1797 to 1801.

Robert and Ethel Kennedy

Ethel Skakel Kennedy is the widow of former U.S. Attorney General
(1961- 1964) and New York Senator (1965 – 1968) Robert F. Kennedy
who was assassinated while campaigning for President in 1968.

After her husband’s death, Kennedy continued to live at the family
home, Hickory Hill, in McLean, Virginia, until December 2009, when
it was sold for $8.25 million. Ethel never remarried.

Apr. 25, 1969