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Begins with band playing. Host tries to get the crowd and speakers under control.

Star-Spangled Banner. Cardinal Spellman performs benediction.

Robert Moses, President of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority speaks briefly, introduces other commissioners.

Speakers: Dr. Arthur Davidson, President of Wagner College; Under Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Giuseppe Luacs (speaks in Italian about Verrazzano, repeated in English); Mayor Wagner talks about the building of the bridge, reads a message from President Johnson.

Engineer cuing tape.

Speakers: Harry Van Arsdale, President of the New York City Central Labor Council, thanks Moses and encourages an increase in employment for the laborers; Roger Blau, President of the US Steel Corporation, mentions the workers who died while building the bridge; Sloan Cole, head of New York Port Authority, talks about the recommendations for regional traffic relief made by Triborough and Port Authority 10 years before, uncompleted Lower Manhattan Expressway; Rex Whitman, Federal Commissioner of Highways, talks about the highway networks in the area; Abe Stark, Borough President of Brooklyn talks about the economic benefits the bridge will have on Brooklyn; Albert V. Maniscalco, Borough President of Staten Island; Governor Rockefeller briefly congratulates Moses's wife; Governor of New Jersey, Richard Hughes, thanks the Sanitation Band and introduces the Rabbi.

Everyone congratulates Moses.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 5829
Municipal archives id: T448