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- ↑ "Classic DJ and Radio Scrapbook: KRLA POP CHRONICLES Program, 1969 (1 of 2)". Classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com. 26 February 2004. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
- ↑ Hopkins, Jerry (5 April 1969). "'Rockumentary' Radio Milestone". Rolling Stone . No. 30. p. 9.
- ↑ Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
- ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPHC-KQ3 : 26 November 2014), David R Young, 03 Nov 1969; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
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