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WillyJP's avatar

Excellent article, Diane. Just a minor historical point about something you said, from an old timer: I'm sure you do know, but many of your younger readers probably don't know that there was no such thing as recorded video in 1943. Video cameras did exist but they were huge monsters on large carriages and mostly confined to studios. As early as the late 1930s, there was such a thing as broadcast video possible on a very limited basis in the NYC area, but virtually no one had a receiver (tv set!) to view it. So ALL video at that time was LIVE. Film cameras, still and movie, were the ONLY way for anyone to record images in 1943. "Kinescope" was being developed in the 1940s but it was simply a filmed recording of a video image on a monitor screen. Videotape did not exist until the mid-1950s. ALL the television we watched in the 1950s was produced live in a studio as it was viewed. Just to lend some perspective to the limitations of "the media" in Roosevelt's time.

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kathy's avatar

Harris calls herself a Black Woman. She is 1/8 black.

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