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Television is Born ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New York World’s Fair opening day speech in Flushing Meadows Park on April 30th 1939, was carried by radio networks. Some fairgoers could watch on television at the RCA and Westinghouse pavilions.

 

-- Pioneer Press

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My father told me he first saw television at the 1939 World's Fair. Our first TV was a Heathkit my father assembled in the early 1950s.

 

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Uploaded on April 27, 2021
Taken sometime in 1939