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- The first commercial radio broadcast was on November 2, 1920 from KDKA in Pittsburgh. When did he first begin listening to the radio? What types of programs did he listen to?
- What did his first radio look like? Was it a big investment for his family? Was it treated very carefully? Was he fascinated by this "magical box" out of which came music and people's voices?
- How did the advent of the radio change his family's daily activities? Did listening to music or the news, as opposed to singing or reading the newspaper together, become a daily family activity?
- Who were his favorite radio performers of the day? Did he wonder what they looked like? Did he ever actually get the chance to see them?
- What important news did he hear over the radio? Was that how he first heard about the 1929 stock market crash? The beginning of World War II in Europe? The bombing of Pearl Harbor? Did he hear about and believe the 1939 broadcast of the War of the Worlds?
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