BOB LASKOWSKI (INTERVIEWED 2 PM 9-4-72) KOTA STUDIO

WENT TO BED ABOUT 10:0 NIGHT OF JUNE 9TH SO B E READY FOR THE NEXT MORNING EARLY BOARD SHIFT. DIDN'T THINK THE FLOOD ANYTHING SERIOUS, CAUSE HERE IN '62, BUT KNEW THERE WOULD RE SPECIAL MESSAGES, ETC TO READ. A HAM RADIO MAN CAME TO MY HOUSE ABOUT 2:30, I N THE MORNING AND SAID THEY WANTED ME TO GO TO THE TRANSMITTER. ART EXE wAS THERE WITH THE TRANSMITTER ALL NIGHT (I THINK). BEN RINEHART CAME OUT (ABOUT 2:45 I THINK) AND AT 3:15 WE WERE ON THE A I R BROADCASTING A S KOTA, I THINK WE COULD HAVE BEGUN BROADCASTING FROM TRANSMITTER AS SOON AS KOTA WENT ORF THE AIR DOWNTOWN BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE EVER LOST ELECTRIC POWER AT THE TRANSMIKTTER.

WHEN I WENT ON THE AIR I TOLD PEOPLE WE WERE ON THE AIR AND WHAT WE WERE HEARING ON THE CITIZEN'S BAND RADIO (ALTHO NO MENTION OF DEATHS). GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT FIRES, POWER LINES DOWN, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS UNDERWAY, ECT.