Harry Hershfield

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Harry Hershfield reads the daily newspaper comic strips by invitation of Mayor La Guardia during the newspaper delivery man strike.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 8644
Municipal archives id: LT582

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