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Tue Apr 30, 2024, 05:33 AM Apr 2024

On this day, April 30, 1939, FDR made the first presidential speech ever on TV, opening the New York World's Fair.

FDR makes first Presidential speech ever on TV, today 1939, opening New York World’s Fair on 150th anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration:





"We offer up a prayer that on the continent of Europe, upon which the American hemisphere was principally colonized, there will be a breakdown of the barriers of intercourse between nations."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt 🇺🇸 World's Fair speech (1939)
#POTUS










There's no way I could leave this one out. This scene still gives me the creeps.


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