HEAR!! THE LIBERTY BELL JULY 4 p.1
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Title
HEAR!! THE LIBERTY BELL JULY 4 p.1
Description
“PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The entire nation will hear the Liberty. Bell, which proclaimed American independence on July 4, 1776, ring again on the Fourth of July in a program of The American Legion which will be carried over the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System. It will be the first time in the history that the nation has heard the historic bed on the anniversary of the day it tolled the birth of the country.
The program will be broadcast from Independence Hall, originating in the same room in which the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution of the United States was adopted. Much of the furnishings which occupied the room on both of those historic occasions are still there and will be used in a dramatization in connection with the broadcast.
The broadcast will be for 30 minutes, beginning promptly at 2 o’clock Eastern Daylight Saving Time, which is 1 o’clock Eastern Standard time, 12 Noon Central Standard Time, 11 a.m. Mountain Standard Time and 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
The program will open with a band selection, followed by a description of the scene by one of the Columbia Broadcasting System’s ace commentators. Professional actors, all costumed in the clothes of the famous characters they will represent, will then put on a dramatization of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. As the climax to this stirring scene, Mayor S. Davies Wilson, of Philadelphia, will personally ring the Liberty Bell, specially arranged microphones carrying each resonant peal to every corner of the country. The mayor will then introduce Harry W. Colmery, national commander of The American Legion, who will deliver a brief address of national importance. The program will close with the National Anthem, played by the band.”
The program will be broadcast from Independence Hall, originating in the same room in which the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution of the United States was adopted. Much of the furnishings which occupied the room on both of those historic occasions are still there and will be used in a dramatization in connection with the broadcast.
The broadcast will be for 30 minutes, beginning promptly at 2 o’clock Eastern Daylight Saving Time, which is 1 o’clock Eastern Standard time, 12 Noon Central Standard Time, 11 a.m. Mountain Standard Time and 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
The program will open with a band selection, followed by a description of the scene by one of the Columbia Broadcasting System’s ace commentators. Professional actors, all costumed in the clothes of the famous characters they will represent, will then put on a dramatization of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. As the climax to this stirring scene, Mayor S. Davies Wilson, of Philadelphia, will personally ring the Liberty Bell, specially arranged microphones carrying each resonant peal to every corner of the country. The mayor will then introduce Harry W. Colmery, national commander of The American Legion, who will deliver a brief address of national importance. The program will close with the National Anthem, played by the band.”
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N/A
Publisher
Negro Star
Date
1937-7-2
Collection
Citation
N/A, “HEAR!! THE LIBERTY BELL JULY 4 p.1,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 24, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/438.