Word: millers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, the come-on ads for Disk Jockey Howard Miller's new radio show reverberated over Chicago's WCFL: "Howard Power! Howard Power! Howard Power!" Massed choruses sang God Bless America as Miller earnestly avowed: "I'm proud to be a flag waver! And I'll be waving it plenty every morning. You will find me ready, hard-hitting with truth and justice." In a full-page, flag-bedecked newspaper ad, Miller pledged his allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, the President, servicemen, policemen and firemen. Miller's No. 1 fan, Mayor Richard Daley, delivered...
...Miller, the climb was especially reassuring: the show ends his exile from the air for his rightist views. For 15 years, on other stations, he had been the most popular radio disk jockey in the Midwest. Then one morning ten months ago, four days after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, Miller began talking about the post-assassination rioting on Chicago's West Side. On his top-rated WIND show, he declared that there should be a day of tribute for "our brave policemen and firemen." Then, noting an inflammatory-and, it developed, totally false-report that...
...Barrage. Besieged by irate telephone calls, the station decided Miller's right-wing opinions might escalate tensions, and it immediately pulled Miller off the air until the "whole thing died down." That only brought an even hotter barrage of pro-Miller calls, and the station was forced to close down its switchboard and post police outside the studios. Housewives picketed the station. The Greater Chicago Police Association reacted by naming Miller their Man of the Year...
...Miller retreated to his 160-acre farm in suburban Barrington with his third wife, Nola. He claimed that the "traumatic shock" had caused him to lose 26 lbs. in two weeks, and sued WIND for $5,000,000 for "trying to kill me as a performer." The suit was settled out of court in August. To the surprise of many of his listeners, Miller then joined liberal-leaning WCFL, a station owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Explained Station Manager Lou Witz: "We feel a conflict of opinions gives more interest to the station...
...will for what? Great resources and balky institutions-what can the President do? Much of the advice that he has been tendered reflects the impatience inherent in the American temperament. J. Irwin Miller, a leading Republican and a much respected Middle West business leader, believes that the problems of the ghettos, crime and domestic unrest are so critical that they justify "going to war." By this he means mobilizing the nation as in World War II, when all of its energies were focused on the one goal of defeating Germany and Japan. The Kerner Commission on civil disorders said that...