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• Almost every home had a radio in it

• Soap operas

• Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds scared many listeners who believed that aliens were actually invading the US.

Orson Welles

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho….

off to the movies they go

Marx Brothers in Duck Soup

Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

• John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

Migrant Mother

• Famous photograph by Dorthea Lange

• Lange's field notes of the images read:– "Seven hungry children.

Father is native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers’ camp … because of failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tires to buy food."[4]

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