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April 24, 1941: | AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE was LINDBERGH RALLY. ji a oe I covered the meeting of the above organization,held eecrre at the Manhattan Center, from the press table. — At 7.30 PM one helf hour before the scheduled start of the meeting there was a crowd of about 10,000 massed on 34th and 35th Streets who could not get access to the hall, I estimate that 4 out of every 5 people in this street crowd had admission tickets, most of them white nucber of people holding blue tickets which T understand had been sold at § 1.- a piece. Reporters at the press table claimed that they had checked that 40,000 tickets had been distributed despite the fact that the hall holes *” é only 4,500 and a second hall in the same building holds ; wv an additional 2,500.- Apparently this excess distribution” ( of tickets was effected deliberately by the sponsors in ~ ne ~< grder to get a crowd on the street. oysf vv . Like the reporters for the N.Y. Tymes tob Byrd and G. Hugh O'Connor I observed a disproportionately large nunber R,2,6 "41 AP si in the street crowd who RECORDER * GLREXED. Cers-FisbFE _ ays ‘ was @ fair sprinkling of Italien accents but} S2ERALVURIALAR I; ESTIGATION rE 8 MAY 20Us4 ¥ 2d 7 Soe emepe pee tte i