WQLN NPR first signed on the air in 1973. On May 2nd of that year, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation arrived in Ashtabula to investigate a bombing at an apartment building. Feuding between nonunion and union construction workers was identified as the cause.
This Day in History is presented by Chronicles, showing Pitt Hole City: Ghost of American’s Black Gold Part 2 this Thursday night on WQLN PBS.