Audio Highlight: Fireside Chat Immersive Environments

The new museum galleries will feature two immersive Fireside Chat Environments. Each of these environments will have a radio and period furnishings, inviting visitors to sit and listen. After the Chat audio concludes, visitors can hear readings of actual letters — representing a variety of opinions — giving the visitor a chance to hear how Americans felt about the president’s leadership during the Depression and World War II.

1930’s Kitchen
Fireside Chat – Banking
Fireside Chat – Banking Responses

1940’s Living Room
Fireside Chat – “Take Out Your Map”
Fireside Chat – “Take Out Your Map” Responses

This Week in Roosevelt History: March 8-14

March 12, 1933: FDR delivers his first Fireside Chat in which he discusses the banking crisis.

 

First page of a reading copy of the First Fireside Chat

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Did you know…..

• On March 9, 1937 FDR explained the Supreme Court reorganization plan during a fireside chat.
• On March 14, 1942, FDR appealed to state governors to conserve rubber by lowering speed limits.

 

This Week in Roosevelt History: March 8-14

March 12, 1933: FDR delivers his first Fireside Chat in which he discusses the banking crisis.

First page of a reading copy of the First Fireside Chat