Henry Ford at WSB

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Industrialist Henry Ford (seated) visits the WSB studio in Atlanta, circa 1922. Ford was the guest of Major John Cohen (right), the editor of the Atlanta Journal who is credited with spearheading the effort to transmit the first commercial radio signal in the South.

Courtesy of Michael H. McDougald

Henry Ford at WSB

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