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Box 6 Folder 11: "Ok, folder 11 is part of an FCC request changing the location of the station from Homewood to Fairfield, at the Garrison, and the antennae is now moved from… the transmitter location is now at Garrison Avenue which is where it…

Box 5 Folder 26: "Folder 26 has various pictures donated from Erin Connolly’s son which show, I guess Erin… I’m not sure who this is…. I don't recognize the men in these pictures. Jim Connolly is in some of these pictures. It's been so long since…

Box 5 Folder 12: "Folder 12 from 1967 is an engineering report for the antennae for WJLD. It is dated March of 1967 and WJLD is… and apparently this is trying to determine… well, they’ve taken numerous field strength measurements. Their daytime power…

Box 4 Folder 36: "Folder 36 are two letters from Channel 42, WBMG TV in which they are contacting the Johnston Manufacturing Company, the Johnston Broadcasting Company as well. Two different companies owned by the Johnston family. What these letters…

Box 4 Folder 13: "We now move to folder 13 is a picture of Jim Connolly outside of the WJLD studios from 1962. This would be up on Red Mountain. Notice the sign also said WJLN TV. The Johnston family was exploring the possibility of going into…

Box 4 Folder 12: "Folder number 12 is a color picture taken outside of WJLD, WJLN studios on Red Mountain. Otis Dodge is there. Erin Connolly is there, and the 2 gentlemen to the right may be salespeople. I’m not sure who they are. This is a picture…

Box 2 Folder 49: "We’re up to folder 49 which has an original picture of Ben Franklin, engineer Ben Franklin and his wife. I don’t remember her name although I spent a lot of time at her house, trying to get some things in order out of Ben’s files.…

Box 2 Folder 32: "Folder 32 has a picture of King Porter during his time on the air at WJLD. He's displaying "Welcome Home" by T-Bone Walker, which was issued in September 1951. King Porter was a jazz and blues piano player and we have numerous…

Box 2 Folder 29: "From the Birmingham Post Herald, it says Bessemer News. “WJLD transmitter moved to Birmingham”. Radio station WJLD has moved its transmitter from Bessemer to Red Mountain in Birmingham, and this was July 21, 1952. That’s very…

Box 2 Folder 21: "Right and moving into 1951 here; this is folder 21 and several pictures from negatives of, three pictures, of Truman Puckett. The negatives were found in the vast negative collection of Graf Studios in Bessemer in the early 1990's…