Henry Lewis

Early election night reporting. Extended interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Election headquarters sound at WNYC studio is overmodulated. Elsewhere okay. ...

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Re-enactment of the story of opening up and developing land for settlement: Colonel Timothy Pickering petitioned Congress to open Ohio and Great Lakes regions for settlement by soldiers and officers after ...

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Re-enactment of George Washington's ride across unreliable roads through New England to visit states that had ratified the new Constitution, which trip resulted in an effort to improve the roads.

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Re-enactment of the founding of the New York Stock Exchange and the Great Fire of New York.

A supplemental note by Catherine Wittemore, chief of the reception staff ...