Tag Archives: On this day 50 years ago: The Astroneedle protest

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Fifty years ago today, a Houston disc jockey climbed the Astroneedle at Astroworld and stayed there for ten days to bring POW’s home from Vietnam. It’s another great piece of local history we found in our film archives. On January 23, 1971, KNUZ radio DJ Larry Vance climbed 31 stories to the top of the Astro-needle …

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