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Mar 12, 1933: FDR Gives First Fireside Chat

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

On this day in 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” broadcast directly from the White House. Roosevelt began that first address simply: “I want to talk for…

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Mar 4, 1933: FDR Inaugurated

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined…

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Feb 15, 1933: FDR Escapes Assassination in Miami

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

On this day in 1933, a deranged, unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts Too many people are starving! and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt had just delivered a speech in Miami’s Bayfront Park from…

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Feb 15, 1933: The Death Penalty–Then and Now

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Giuseppe Zangara shoots Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, in Miami, Florida. Zangara’s shots missed President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, who was with Cermak at the time. Cermak was seriously wounded and died on March 6. Immediately after Mayor Cermak died from…

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Jan 5, 1933: Golden Gate Bridge is Born

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

On January 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages. Following the Gold Rush boom that began in 1849, speculators realized the land north…