mar 12, 1933 - Fireside Chats

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During the 1930s, well before the advent of television, some 90 percent of American households owned a radio. Seeing the potential of mass media to communicate directly and intimately with the public, Roosevelt would give around 30 total radio addresses from March 1933 to June 1944. The topics he spoke about ranged from domestic issues such as the economic policies of the New Deal, drought and unemployment, to Europe’s battle with fascism and American military progress in Europe and in the Pacific during World War II. Millions of people found comfort and renewed confidence in these speeches, which became known as the “fireside chats.” On March 12, 1933, he delivering the first “chat”, it was a relatively informal address on the banking crisis that would be broadcast over the radio.

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