Matthew Lasar's website:

http://www.lasarletter.com
 

Containing links to some of Lewis Hill's early Reports-to-the-Listeners.
 

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Matthew Lasar writes:

Lewis Hill was adamantly opposed to Pacifica's listener sponsors having any direct (ie voting) power in the governance of the organization.  People do not want to hear this, but it is true.  On the other hand he pioneered in the establishment of what are now called Local (or Community) Advisory Boards and it is possible that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting modelled its own requirements for community radio stations on the Pacifica model.

Too often in Pacifica discourse people point to what Lewis Hill did or didn't say or do as justification for their own positions.  Lewis Hill was a genius who single-handedly invented the idea of listener supported broadcasting.  He is also dead, and we have the obligation to create institutions that meet our needs, not his.
 

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Recommended reading:

"The Theory of Listener-Sponsored Radio."
by Lewis Hill, 1951.