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Box 8 Folder 17: "Folder 17 is a 8x10 of Jesse Champion Jr. Jesse passed away prematurely. He was overweight, he had a great voice, he had a great…
Box 8 Folder 13: "Moving along to folder 13 are… There are some McNair proof sheets, two proof sheets, and an 8x10, and I still don’t know who she is.…
Box 8 Folder 10: "Ok, this is folder 10 which are a series of sign-on logs, air time logs. And it lists the various shift times and it also has the…
Box 8 Folder 5: "Ok, we’re at folder 5 which contains a number of WENN photos from Manuel Fitch's scrapbook. In many cases, we've enlarged the copies.…
Box 7 Folder 26: "And we move ahead to folder 26. Folder 26, also projecting from 1979, WERC pays tribute to Jesse Champion who, of course, started…
Box 7 Folder 19: "Folder 19 is a copy of the Birmingham Times (May 18-20, 1978) which features an article commending Jesse Champion receiving an…
Lewis White (b. Nov 5, 1932, d. Mar 16, 2017), a broadcaster with WJLD from 1958 to 1972, His show was a weekender characterized as a jazz show later…
Jesse Champion (b. Aug 27, 1927, d.Nov 2, 2007), announcer WJLD/WERC – 1954-63/1970-90 Jesse Champion relates his history at WJLD 1400, and an…
Lora Gary (b. Jan 6, 1927, d. Mar 26, 2010) remembers the 1950’s and her time at WBCO and later WJLD, where she had a noon jazz show.