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Hi and thanks for downloading Witness from the BBC World Service, history told by the people who were there.

Today we're going back to November 1970 and a bizarre event which went on to become one of the most famous viral videos ever, the story of an exploding

whale. Paul Linman was a 23-year-old reporter at K-A-T-U local news in Portland, Oregon.

And on Wednesday, November 11th, 1970, the news director called him into the office.

And he told me he wanted me to go to the southern Oregon coast the next day and

cover a story down there.

We'll even charter you an aircraft and you and your photographer can fly down and I thought wow the station doesn't

spend that kind of money very often what's going on he said well there's dead whale

and then he has and they're gonna blow it up with dynamite. So the following day Paul and cameraman Doug Brazil set off for the

coastal town of Florence. It's not uncommon for Wales to wash up on Oregon beaches, but usually they're gray whales and this was a much bigger sperm whale.

And they are very large. This one was estimated to be 40 feet long and that put its weight

somewhere between 40 and 65 tons. It was just huge and there was no easy way to

remove it.

You couldn't pick the thing up.

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