TV History: October 5, 1947…First White House Broadcast
On June 2, 2012
- TV History
TV History: October 5, 1947
Below, a single RCA TK30 pool camera is shown bringing President Harry Truman to the nation in the first ever television broadcast live from the White House. The first President to appear on TV was Franklin Roosevelt who spoke at the opening session of the New York World’s Fair on April 30, 1939.
The first person who would later become President was Secretary Herbert Hoover, when he participated in AT&T’s long distance TV experiment from DC to NYC April 1927.