Websites
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As this site describes, nearly every future president modeled their communication with the public after FDR. There are some fun links here to famous presidential speeches given in a similar fashion.
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The History Channel has a "this day in history" series, and for March 12th, the winner is FDR's speech.
Articles and Interviews
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Time Magazine's anniversary shout-out to the beginning of Roosevelt's legacy speeches.
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From the University of Virginia, an article on the 80th anniversary of FDR's "First Fireside Chat."
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An article on the calming effect of the fireside chats.
Video
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Television didn't exist in 1933, but this video shows an image of FDR and the audio of the speech, to show what a video may have been like.
Audio
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On the 75th anniversary of FDR's chat, NPR looks back at the famous speech.
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Here is the full audio version of the speech, with a transcript to follow along.
Images
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Here he is at his desk, reading the speech.
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Here's FDR with the multiple radio network microphones as he reads a fireside chat.
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It's hard to believe, but when FDR was a kid many boys wore dresses until they were about eight years old. You have to see the picture to believe it.
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From the National Museum of American History, the actual microphone FDR used for the speech.