Speaker: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Title: The Banking Crisis

Date: March 12, 1933

Venue: First Fireside Chat (radio broadcast)

Clip Length: 1 min 10 sec

(Clip courtesy of History & Politics Out Loud)
The Banking Crisis
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Questions

1) According to Roosevelt’s introduction, what is the purpose of this radio address? (22, 60-61)

2) What does Roosevelt say that might suggest that he chose an audience-serving topic? (31)


Page numbers in above parentheses are from Quentin Schultze, An Essential Guide to Public Speaking.
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