On Nov. 12, 1970, the Oregon Highway Division decided the best way to removed a dead whale from a beach in Florence was to blow it up. The footage is something! A lot of you have asked us to find it in the KGW Vault. Unfortunately, KGW was not there on that fateful day... so we had to get creative to tell this story.

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