Paul Layendecker
Programming and Content Director at WCSY-FM (Benton Harbor, MI)
Programming and Content Director at WSJM-FM (Benton Harbor, MI)
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1 week ago |
wcsy.com | Paul Layendecker
WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, June 16, 20251858, Senate candidate Abe Lincoln told a Springfield, Illinois, crowd that slavery was an issue that had to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”1903, in one of the biggest days in U.S. business history, both the Ford Motor Company and Pepsi Cola were incorporated. 1960 The movie “Psycho opened.
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2 weeks ago |
wcsy.com | Paul Layendecker
WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, June 9, 20251790, the First Book Was Copyrighted in the U.S. John Barry’s “Philadelphia Spelling Book”. 1934, Donald Duck made his debut in Disney’s “The Wise Little Hen”. 1980, Richard Pryor suffered third degree burns over most of his body while “freebasing” the cocaine. He had to endure two months of painful skin-grafting operations.
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3 weeks ago |
wcsy.com | Paul Layendecker
WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, June 5, 20251968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. Sirhan Sirhan was arrested at the scene. 1977 The Apple II went on sale at a cost of $1298. It was one of the first microcomputers to be sold fully assembled. 1981 AIDS was reported for the first time. 2004 American actor and 40th President Ronald Reagan died at age 93.
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wcsy.com | Paul Layendecker
Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Wednesday, June 4, 20251896 Henry Ford completed building his first automobile, calling it the Ford Quadricycle. It had a two-cylinder 4 horsepower engine and a top speed of 20 mph. It sold for $200. 1937 Sylvan Goldman, owner of a Humpty Dumpty Grocery store in Oklahoma City, began using his new invention – the shopping cart. It was essentially a folding chair with wheels. 1942 The Battle of Midway began. It would be Japan’s first major defeat of the war.
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3 weeks ago |
wcsy.com | Paul Layendecker
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, June 3, 20251800 President John Adams arrived in Washington D.C. as the new capital city was being built. The New York Knickerbockers were the first baseball team to wear uniforms. 1965 Edward White was the first to take a spacewalk outside of the Gemini 4 spacecraft. His walk lasted for 23 minutes. White died in the 1967 Apollo 1 disaster, making him and the crew the first American astronauts to die in a spacecraft.
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