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  • - [Narrator] An eight-ton, 45-foot sperm whale carcass

  • washes up on your beach.

  • What do you do? You can't move it.

  • - [Paul] The thing is falling apart.

  • - [Narrator] You can't bury it.

  • - [Paul] There's water under the sand.

  • - [Narrator] You can't throw it back in the ocean.

  • - [Paul] Of course, the tides can push them back in.

  • - [Narrator] Might as well blow it up?

  • It was an ordinary day in November, 1970.

  • - [Paul] November 12, 1970, to be exact.

  • - [Narrator] Thanks, Paul.

  • This here is Paul Linnman.

  • He was a television reporter for Portland's KATU,

  • and on November 12, 1970,

  • Paul was assigned a story

  • that would change his life forever.

  • - What to do with one 45-foot, eight-ton whale,

  • dead on arrival on a beach near Florence.

  • Whales washing up on the beach in Oregon

  • are not an uncommon occurrence.

  • - [Narrator] But it had been so long,

  • state officials didn't know how to get rid of

  • that giant, stinking carcass.

  • - [Paul] That's precisely why

  • the Oregon Department of Transportation

  • decided to use dynamite.

  • - [Narrator] The plan was to blow the whale

  • into smaller pieces,

  • and have scavengers like seagulls eat the rest of it.

  • Paul and his cameraman set up their shot

  • and waited a thousand yards away from the blast.

  • - [Paul] Within, I'd say, about 20 or 30 seconds,

  • it was soon raining down on all of us.

  • And larger pieces that came down,

  • it became louder and louder

  • until you realized, wow, if one of these chunks hits me,

  • I'm a goner.

  • We start running in the direction of the parking lot,

  • and that's when a piece of blubber

  • about the size of a small coffee table

  • completely flattened an Oldsmobile.

  • - [Narrator] KATU's exploding whale report

  • was a viral video in the pre-internet age.

  • It's inspired parodies and one-man shows,

  • and for Paul Linnman, it's been career-defining.

  • - [Paul] It's something that reoccurs in my life

  • in one way or another every single day.

  • I know what's gonna be written about in my obituary.

- [Narrator] An eight-ton, 45-foot sperm whale carcass

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