Stan
Major Stan arrived in Tampa in the mid-70’s
having done successful talk programs in New Orleans, Kansas City
and Milwaukee. He also covered the Vietnam War for NBC News in
69-70. Stan says “My most vivid recollection
of the WDAE era was the FBI instructions on how to enter and start
my car and not get blowed to pieces. The minute I hit town I started
doing a bunch of shows on the Kennedy Assassination because good
ole Santos Trafficante was there... along with Gray Lunch former
CIA Bay of Pigs leader and a great hero to the Miami Cubans. In
fact I had Gray on one night and looked him straight in the eye
and ask him if he had any part in killing JFK. I don’t think
I’ve ever been in a position to ask a question like that
before or since. He said “no” of course, but then
I ask him if he knew any of his Cuban compatriots who had wanted
JFK dead and he said yes.” Stan said the show went well in ratings but
everyone got messed up with an attempt by the Teamsters to organize
the station’s personnel. “We were all gone shortly
after that.” He returned to the Tampa area in the early
90’s to begin America’s first live all night talk
program at the Sun Radio network. The first two years he was based
in Clearwater. His national show was heard on about 500 stations
over a nine year period including our sister stations here in
Tampa, Orlando and West Palm Beach. Stan can be reached at: stanmajor@aol.com |