COOLIDGE NOMINATION ACCEPTANCE SPEECH TO BE BROADCAST OVER RADIO
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On August 13, 1924, The Evening Star reports that President Calvin Coolidge's presidential nomination acceptance speech will be "broadcast tomorrow night from Memorial Continental Hall" located here in the Nation's Capital.
The broadcast will be played on a radio loudspeaker at the First Congregational Church* where the First Couple attend.
WCAP will broadcast the speech locally while other Eastern radio stations carrying the signal will be WEAF, New York, WJAR, Providence, KDKA, Pittsburgh, & WGY Schenectady.
*DC congregationalists, identified with northern abolitionism, held their 1st service in 1865. The original church building, nearly 90 years old, was declared unsafe in the 1950s.
SOURCES
"Coolidge's Church Puts in Radio for Acceptance Talk," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 13, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"First UCCDC, History," www.firstuccdc.org/
