I was also a regular listener to his daily radio program on KIEV, now KRLA, at 870 kilocycles on the AM band, which he began in 1976. Putnam regularly featured Howard Jarvis as a guest, and his show was a major factor, in my opinion, in the success of Proposition 13 in 1978.
He was an outspoken conservative and anti-Communist, and he always concluded his newscasts with a shot of the American flag...
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Yes, remember him well, as I grew up in Long Beach, in SoCalif. Too bad his breed is a small number in the media now. He is an American patriot...something that cannot be said for most in the media.