In 1968, a group of young Indianapolis broadcasters made history — they built their own radio station from scratch, without a license, and dared the FCC to stop them. For four years, Radio Free Naptown brought underground music to the city, from Captain Beefheart to Gil Scott-Heron, broadcasting from makeshift locations that at one point even included a horse pasture. They didn’t call it pirate radio; they called it bootleg. Radio Free Naptown evaded federal regulators at every turn — until St. Patrick’s Day weekend in 1972. Co-founders Steve Everitt and Don Worsham tell the inside story of Radio Free Naptown.
The secret history of Radio Free Naptown
