[6] The station took the call letters KREH and signed on January 31, 1953, from its studios and transmitter east of town on the highway to Ville Platte.

[7] Evans, who had been a soldier stationed at Fort Bliss, died after he got lost flying home to De Ridder and crashed near New Waverly, Texas in August 1953.

[10] Under Mowad, the interim station manager was Donald R. Lindig, a white man married to a Black woman.

This led to harassment by the local Ku Klux Klan, whose leader, Oddist J. Lambright, was charged with conspiring to interfere with his rights by distributing flyers containing racial slurs and urging a boycott of the station by local businesses; Lambright and two others in Klan robes went to Lindig's apartment to encourage his family to leave town.

[19] However, there were technical obstacles, chief among them the removal of the station's tower due to its proximity to a new heliport at the local hospital.

[20] The new ownership, led by Carol Skaggs, set out to restore local radio service to Oakdale.

Reclaiming the prior KREH call letters, the station built a new tower[21] and returned to the air on October 12, 1994.

[30] Radio Saigon Houston produces a wide variety of Vietnamese-language programs, some of which are aired by other stations across the United States.