It was January 1986, and Doug Tracht, better known as ‘The Greaseman,’ while working at WWDC-FM in Washington, D.C., created an uproar by telling an on-air joke regarding the new federal holiday, Martin Luther King Day.
“Why don’t we shoot four more and get the whole week off?” Tracht said, “Come on, now, you know I don’t mean nothin’!”
Not even the free speech guaranteed by the US Constitution, could protect the disc jockey. He was suspended from the station for five days, publicly apologized, and later donated money to create a scholarship at Howard University in honor of Dr. King.
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