KJR carried the weekly “Talk to the People” program. New York Mayor La Guardia famously addressed New Yorkers directly on WNYC radio in his weekly program.
He covered topics ranging from wartime rationing and city health regulations to reading the Sunday comic strips aloud during the 1945 newspaper delivery strike.
Known for promising to “speak smack from the shoulder” using plain language accessible to all immigrant and working-class neighborhoods.
During a newspaper strike in 1945, La Guardia took time during his broadcasts to read the comic strips to the children:
Here, La Guardia reads Dick Tracy comic strip during his weekly program, with added comment about “dirty money” and crime (5:32)
1946 Seattle Radio Listings
