"Night after night, viewers were sickened by images of oil-drenched birds that couldn't fly, sea otters that couldn't swim, and tides that brought in the corpses of dead seals and dolphins.
"Fueling public outrage even further was a comment by a top oil company executive who said: 'I am amazed at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.'"
In a 1999 Los Angeles Times article, Martin Miller recounts the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which occurred forty years ago today.
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