Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chats
Herman Eberhardt showed an NBC radio microphone from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where he is a supervisory cu… read more
Herman Eberhardt showed an NBC radio microphone from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where he is a supervisory curator. The microphone was used when FDR delivered his fireside chats. We learned why these talks were so effective in rallying a desperate nation during the Great Depression -- and we heard an excerpt from FDR’s 1933 radio broadcast on the banking crisis. The Roosevelt library provided the video. close
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