it was hot, around 90 degrees. and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage, from the podium at the front of the crowd, that the crowd was about 80,000. but the police actually said it was bigger. police said it was 100,000 people. , again this was in 1936. so if you want to address to that forward for sure, it was $1. about if you want to adjust that to account for how big the population of the country was at the time compared to now, hundred thousand people than convey to the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of like 250 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd. particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician nude william lembke? he was a congressman, a candidate for president. third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election. and that, that huge rally on labor day weekend, and chicago in 1936, was a rally in support of will
candidate for president. third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election. and that, that huge rally on labor day weekend, and chicago in 1936, was a rally in support of william lembke s presidential candidacy. but lumpy s can t hate campaign did. nothing lumpy himself held his own rally just today before the hundred thousand person rally and he got less than 10,000 people to show up. when it came to election day november of 1936, lembke got less than 2% of the vote. william lembke is somebody who is not only been forgotten by history but he was forgotten while he was still happening. he was just nothing. did not move the needle at all. the only reason 100,000 people turned out for a lembke related rally on a hot september day for something related to zelenskyy s campaign, the only
tried putting him on tv as a sports commentator at one point. i think he lasted not one month before that failed, and that fell apart as well. after him, there was this guy who also built a fast growing audience on right wing a.m. talk radio. then he was brought on to television. he did well. he was brought on to the fox news channel. and he got huge ratings at the fox news channel with his first signature, elaborate conspiracy theories he would draw out on a chalkboard, and kind of a pseudo-religious messianic thing that i think people often forget about him now. at one point, you might remember, he held a pseudo-religious revival rally. like, a rally for himself on the national mall. he said at one point that rally was to unveil his 100-year plan to save the country. all very weird. but at the fox news channel, he
reason that gigantic number of people turned out is because the radio guy was there. they were all there to see the radio guy, because the radio guy was the big deal. he was huge. he could turn at 100,000 americans at a rally, a portion of the u.s. population that could translate to about a quarter million people today. i didn t person event. he was one of the best known people in the country. he was on hundreds of radio stations at the time when registrations wrong we had and in terms of his weekly listener ship the best estimates are that he around 1936 had tens of millions of americans listening. this was a time when the country had a population of less than 130 million people. .