On this day in 1956: Bob Raiford, a disc jockey on Charlotte’s WBT, is fired for denouncing on the air the racial beating of Nat King Cole during a concert two days earlier in Birmingham, Ala.
Defending Nat King Cole wasn’t on his play list
April 12, 2010 by Lew Powell
Intreresting. Is this the same Robert D. Raiford, commentator on the John Boy & Billy Big Show? His Wikipedia bio says he worked at WBT way back when…
Yes, the same — he’s had a long career!