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NPR replaced the [[National Educational Radio Network]] on February 26, 1970, following Congressional passage of the [[Public Broadcasting Act of 1967]].<ref name="JARVIK">{{cite book |last=Jarvik |first=Laurence Ariel |date=1997 |title=PBS, behind the screen |location=Rocklin, CA |publisher=Forum |isbn=978-0761506683 }}</ref> This act was signed into law by [[President of the United States|President]] | NPR replaced the [[National Educational Radio Network]] on February 26, 1970, following Congressional passage of the [[Public Broadcasting Act of 1967]].<ref name="JARVIK">{{cite book |last=Jarvik |first=Laurence Ariel |date=1997 |title=PBS, behind the screen |location=Rocklin, CA |publisher=Forum |isbn=978-0761506683 }}</ref> This act was signed into law by [[President of the United States|President]] Lyndon B. Johnson, and established the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]], which also created the [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)]] for television in addition to NPR. A CPB organizing committee under John Witherspoon first created a board of directors chaired by [[Bernard Mayes]]. | ||
The board then hired [[Don Quayle|Donald Quayle]] to be the first president of NPR with 30 employees and 90 charter member local stations, and studios in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/history.html#history |title= History |publisher= NPR |access-date= February 24, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110222185012/http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/history.html#history |archive-date= February 22, 2011 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref> | The board then hired [[Don Quayle|Donald Quayle]] to be the first president of NPR with 30 employees and 90 charter member local stations, and studios in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/history.html#history |title= History |publisher= NPR |access-date= February 24, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110222185012/http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/history.html#history |archive-date= February 22, 2011 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref> | ||