{"id":22328,"date":"2015-02-16T06:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22328"},"modified":"2016-10-23T06:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:55:03","slug":"presidents-day-special-first-president-on-television-fdr-franklin-roosevel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22328","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Day Special&#8230;First President On Television, FDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President&#8217;s Day Special&#8230;First President On Television, FDR <\/p>\n<p>Franklin Roosevelt was the first American President to appear on television at the dedication ceremonies of the New York World&#8217;s Fair on April 30, 1939.   <\/p>\n<p>When Roosevelt made history he was watched by a couple of hundred viewers in the RCA pavilion as well as a few dozen more back at the NBC in Manhattan. More people likely saw FDR live at the fair than in front of TV sets.<\/p>\n<p>RCA president David Sarnoff actually beat FDR on TV by ten days as he dedicated the RCA Pavilion. Enjoy and share!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/798968680140683\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Presidents-Day-Special...First-President-On-Television-FDR-Franklin-Roosevel\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/798968680140683\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477163853_129_Presidents-Day-Special...First-President-On-Television-FDR-Franklin-Roosevel\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/798968680140683\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477163853_907_Presidents-Day-Special...First-President-On-Television-FDR-Franklin-Roosevel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/798971806807037\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President&#8217;s Day Special&#8230;First President On Television, FDR Franklin Roosevelt was the first American President to appear on television at the dedication ceremonies of the New York World&#8217;s Fair on April 30, 1939. When Roosevelt made history he was watched by a couple of hundred viewers in the RCA pavilion as well as a few dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}