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The Exxon Valdez is remembered in infamy. But what about Alaska’s previous largest oil spill?
A screen shot from a 1980 episode of public affairs program Alaska Review about the 1979 sinking of the M/V Lee Wang Zin. (Courtesy UAF's Alaska Film Archives) Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. …