In October 1964, WBOX owner Ralph Blumberg joined a group of community leaders seeking to maintain racial tranquility.

[8] The Ku Klux Klan, which had a prominent role in town, did not respond kindly, intimidating organizers and forcing the address to be canceled.

[8] On March 18, 1965, six bullet holes were found in WBOX's transmitter building, which was located in a vacant field four miles northeast of town.

[7] Two nights later, at a meeting of Klansmen at the Hotel Bentley in Alexandria, one speaker confirmed that the Klan was involved for "putting that station out of business", referring to WBOX.

New York public relations consultant Mortimer Matz bought 100 commercials, each consisting of a reading of the preamble of the Constitution of the United States, to be aired on WBOX.

[14] In late 1965—though not approved until March 1966—WBOX was sold to Pearl River Broadcasting Corporation[3] for a financial loss;[14] the $71,500 sale price[15] was less than the $80,000 that Magic City had paid in 1961.

[16] Womack, in a letter to the editor of Broadcasting a year later, declared that many advertising accounts, including virtually all of the local clients, had returned to WBOX.

[17] Marcy bought out Womack's interest in 1972,[3] and Moseley-Smith Broadcasting, which owned a station in Boca Raton, Florida, acquired WBOX in 1974 for $130,000.