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...surprised to read your article in the Feb. 27 issue which relates to the broadcast of the attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt and infers that Mr. Mizer was at fault in handling this broadcast...
When Station WQAM set up to make the broadcast immediately preceding President-elect Roosevelt's arrival at the park the crew that was handling the public address for the city decided that instead of trying to use their own microphone for the public address system that they would pick up Station WQAM broadcast on a receiver and put it out over the public address system in the park. At the time no objections were seen to this arrangement...
...broadcast proceeded satisfactorily until the shots were fired and this was picked up by the Station, reproduced on the public address, as well as shouts "Get that man" etc. Inasmuch as there were some 25,000 people in the crowd, including the usual percentage of women and children, it required some rather fast thinking to decide whether or not to proceed with the broadcast and create a panic, which no doubt would have resulted in accidents and deaths as the result of a stampede, or whether to take some steps to quiet the crowd, as there...
...Asked the New York Evening Post last week: "Is it fair, as the Government did in the Al Capone case, to arrest [Mitchell] for one offense in order to punish him for another?" The New York Police last week broadcast a descriptive circular for the arrest of Racketeer Arthur ("'Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer who also was wanted for violation of Federal Income...
When performances are broadcast from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Engineer Charles Grey is monitor. National Broadcasting Co. uses four microphones at the Metropolitan, sometimes more. Engineer Grey, a rugged Down-Easterner from Portland, Me., sits in a second-tier box and sees that the music which comes from all four mikes is adjusted so evenly that it will sound over the radio just as it does in the great auditorium...