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ashling

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2. This is a great find

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sun Jan 15, 2012, 02:19 AM

Jan 2012

Thanks for posting this. I am listening right now. A Tennessee farmer talking about the TVA.

A secretary talking about honest government. Cagney singing with Keenan Wynn and Groucho Marx. In that Good old Hoover Time. ... the tear gas, bombs, and bullets for the vets .... The old Red Scare Ain't What it used to be ... Jane Wyman . . . Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra .... a veteran talking about Anacostia Flatts and the veterans bonus march .... Governor Dewey rigging the election laws of New York State ....

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1944 FDR pre election celebrity radio broadcast hosted by Humphrey Bogart [View all] mucifer Jan 2012 OP

Close your eyes and its a time machine. :) teknomanzer Jan 2012 #1

This is a great find ashling Jan 2012 #2

That broadcast was a tonic Voltaire Jan 2012 #3

This is so interesting, and so familiar. Straight talk... all opinions... common sense.. and Judy! earcandle Jan 2012 #4

the end justifies the meanies StArkhipov Jun 2013 #5