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Good News Network revisited the 1970 Oregon beach whale explosion, which became one of the internet's first viral videos. On November 12, 1970, a dead whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, and the highway department chose dynamite to dispose of it. Young Portland newscaster Paul Linnman was sent to cover it with cameraman Doug Brazil, and TV newsman Paul Linnman narrated the blast from the beach as blubber rained down and they ran for their lives. The outlet quoted Linnman's line, "The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds," as part of its JoyDrops-partnered feature on joyful documentary shorts. The clip has been shared for 56 years, moving from film reels to VHS tapes, early email attachments, blog videos and YouTube. Director Winslow Crane-Murdoch's short Oh Whale, the latest JoyDrops film, follows Linnman, who resented being remembered for the whale until he came to accept it. The film, released with The New Yorker and Switchboard Magazine, has won awards and a Critics' Choice nomination, and Florence now holds an annual Exploding Whale Memorial Day. Crane-Murdoch said the film is about legacy and that he values documentaries that put joy first.