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SALEM

The Salem Historical Society Museum, 208 S. Broadway Ave., will offer a Sunday program, “The Beat Goes On,” from 1 to 4 p.m. about the late Alan Freed, originator of the phrase “rock ‘n’ roll.”

Freed, a 1940 graduate of Salem High School, was on the list of the first inductees into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. The late Salem historian, Dale Shaffer, wrote that, at WJW Radio in Cleveland he was called “King of the Moondogs” in his night-time broadcast. Freed worked at stations in Akron, Youngstown and Cleveland. There will be showings of movies he was in and material from his school days in Salem.