John lounsberry biography

You've probably heard his whiny, annoying voice, and racist, hateful speech that spews from his mouth on any given weekday on Rochester's WHAM 1180 am radio.

For well over a decade, Bob Lonsberry has poisoned Rochester's radio airwaves with his racist rhetoric and insults. He has used the power of radio to put down everyone including African-Americans, Latinos, Gays and Lesbians. Making the 45 minute commute from his home in Mt. Morris, New York to Rochester, Lonsberry injects his racism, divides our city, then drives back to his little town.

And Lonsberry knows exactly what he is doing. In 2003, after an orangutan briefly escaped from it's cage at the Seneca Park Zoo, Lonsberry played chimpanzee sounds over the air and made comments about then Rochester Mayor William A. Johnson, who is African-American, suggesting that Johnson was the orangutan who had escaped.

The incident drew local media attention, and me and my brothe