Late ‘76 in Arkansas: politics and primaries

By Randy Dixon,

Kyle Kellams

Published February 5, 2024 at 3:22 PM CST

On today's visit to the Pryor Center archives, host Randy Dixon takes listeners back to the winter of 1976 to learn what Arkansans were reading about in the news.

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Randy Dixon

Randy Dixon is the Director of News Archives and Media for the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.

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Kyle Kellams

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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