It came tumbling downward on an early spring Friday morning, with a swift thump.
A crowd gathered at Concordia Seminary, a Lutheran seminary in Clayton, Mo., to watch a radio tower that had stood since 1948 fall to the ground.
The radio history at Concordia goes back much further. KFUO(AM) can trace its roots back to 1927 on the campus.
Three years earlier, the station that holds the title of the longest continually running religious radio station in the U.S. took to the airwaves from a seminary on South Jefferson Ave. in St. Louis…