WVON Airchecks

CTL-E-0782 · Archive · collection · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

The surviving 1960s broadcast record of WVON (Chicago Black radio) exists almost entirely through private collectors' home recordings (1966 Lucky Cordell and Ed Cook airchecks; Richard Pegue tapes 1980s-1990s) - not station archives.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-033; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Internet Archive, "Free the Airchecks!" (primary source)

Record CTL-E-0782 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: PRESERVE-001.
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Cite as: CultureTechLens, “WVON Airchecks (CTL-E-0782),” October 4, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0782/

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