WBRZ FLASHBACK: First female mayor of Baton Rouge

BATON ROUGE - WBRZ had only been on the air for about a year when tragedy struck the capital city: Mayor Jesse Webb and three others died in a plane crash in Lansing, Michigan. Webb left Ryan Field en route to Michigan State University for a national metropolitan conference when the plane crashed and caught fire, killing everyone on board. The 33-year-old mayor was three years into his first term. WBRZ was three three weeks later — May 15, 1969 — w