Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

Walter Cronkite was a broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for
the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).

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)

On January 27, 2003, the Mercury Theatre broadcast of The War of the
Worlds was made part of the National Recording Registry of the Library
of Congress.

                 Ed Danahue

 
Disc Jockey Richardson at KTRM (now KZZB) in Beaumont, Texas

 
    Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959)

The DJ turned rock star, who is best remembered for hit recording of “Chantilly Lace”,
died in a tragic plane crash along with legends Buddy Holly and young Ritchie Valens.

Richardson began his musical career as a songwriter. George Jones later recorded 
his "White Lightning", which became Jones’ first #1 country hit in 1959. He also 
wrote "Running Bear" for his friend Johnny Preston and is credited for making the
first music video in 1958.