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Newstalgia Reference Room - The Taft-Hartley Vote - June 23, 1947

Newstalgia Reference room with a recording of the actual Senate Override vote to pass the Taft-Hartley bill into law.

The Taft-Hartley Vote - even the spectator gallery was jammed.

Taft-Hartley bill was big news at the time and since the vote on the bill was bigger news, most radio networks ran the voting procedure live. The amount of interest on the street rivaled the interest in the gallery, as people jammed Capitol Hill to witness the outcome.

So here is the complete broadcast of the vote, as it happened, on June 23, 1947, complete with background and commentary.

History on the fly.

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