{"id":24026,"date":"2014-10-07T06:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24026"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:48:38","slug":"speaking-of-telethons-here-are-photos-from-the-first-everafter-posting-the-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24026","title":{"rendered":"Photos From The First Ever Network Telethon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking Of Telethons…Here Are Photos From The First Ever<\/p>\n

After posting the Martin & Lewis video from the 1952 Olympic Telethon, it occurred to me that it’s been a few years since we’ve seen these rare pictures from the first telethon in May of 1949.<\/p>\n

Milton Berle hosted the 16 hour event on NBC and raised $100,000 for The Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund. Among the celebrity guests…Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. I think it’s safe to say that no one in the world has more experience and ability with teletoons than Mr. Lewis. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n

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Speaking Of Telethons…Here Are Photos From The First Ever After posting the Martin & Lewis video from the 1952 Olympic Telethon, it occurred to me that it’s been a few years since we’ve seen these rare pictures from the first telethon in May of 1949. Milton Berle hosted the 16 hour event on NBC and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24027,"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":[],"tags":[728,720,782,787,806],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-guests","tag-host","tag-nbc","tag-net","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","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=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}