Paul benzaquin wikipedia

Paul Benzaquin (died February 13, 2013) was a 20th-century American broadcaster in the city of Boston, a pioneer of talk radio.

He was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2007.^[1]

Benzaquin was born and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts.^[2] His father was a grain merchant, his civic-minded mother a founder of the local chapter of the League of Women Voters.

Paul benzaquin wikipedia

After high school, he attended a seminary in Bangor, Maine, for a year.^[1] He served with the 37th Infantry Division during World War II on Bougainville and in the Philippines, and was awarded the Bronze Star.^[3]

Benzaquin then embarked on a journalism career in 1948 at the Boston Globe.

He wrote the 1959 nonfiction bestseller Holocaust! about the Cocoanut Grove fire which uncovered malfeasance on the part of the nightclub's employees. Shortly after that he moved to radio broadcasting, starting in September 1960 at WEEI,^[2] where