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On This Day In History

On September 4, 1951, at 7:30 p.m. PT, President Harry S. Truman was able to make the first transcontinental television broadcast. Truman spoke at a conference in San Francisco focusing on the Treaty of San Francisco, which officially ended America’s post-war occupation of Japan. There were over 30 million people estimated to watch the broadcast from coast to coast.


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