Benzaquin then embarked on a journalism career in 1948 at the '' Boston Globe '' . He wrote the 1959 nonfiction bestseller '' Holocaust ! '' about the Cocoanut Grove fire which uncovered malfeasance on the part of the nightclub 's employees . Shortly after that he moved to radio broadcasting , starting in September 1960 at WEEI , where he soon afterward announced Logan Airport 's first air disaster , the October 1960 crash of a Lockheed Electra . He later worked at most of Boston 's big news stations : WHDH , WBZ and WRKO , also writing a column for the '' Boston Herald Traveler '' from 1964 to 1969 . He was one of the first radio broadcasters to be suspended , in 1968 , for uttering a profanity on the air . He spent a year at Chicago station WLS-TV , but returned to Boston in 1971
Cocoanut Grove fire
Cocoanut Grove fire
Paul Benzaquin