1939-40 World's Fair

Erik Barnouw on attending the RCA television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair

Sam Christaldi on Du Mont and the 1939 World's Fair and the early price of television sets

John Conte on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair

Louis Dorfsman on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair and the development of color television

Hugh Downs on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth avoiding the television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair

Les Flory on preparing for broadcast television and the 1939 World's Fair

Horton Foote on the television exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair

Ray Forrest on attending the 1939-40 World's Fair

Reuven Frank on seeing television at the 1939-40 World's Fair, and on his first job in television news

Betty Garrett on working at the 1939 World's Fair, and on the television exhibition

Leonard H. Goldenson on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair

Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. on DuMont's Model 180, their first television set, and demonstrating it at the 1939 World's Fair

Lewis Gomavitz on his early experiences in theater and on meeting Burr Tillstrom at the 1939 World's Fair

Albert Heschong on the 1939 World's Fair

Martin Hoade on the first time he saw television at the 1939 World's Fair

Seaman Jacobs on attending the 1939 World's Fair, and on the first time he saw television

Loren Jones on RCA's television exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair

Ernest Kinoy on the first time he saw television at the 1939 World's Fair

Sid Krofft on the 1939 World's Fair

Sheldon Leonard on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair

Richard Lewis on the first time he saw television, at the 1939 World's Fair

Sidney Lumet on seeing television at the World's Fair, and on getting into television

Stewart MacGregory on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair

E.G. Marshall on working at the 1939-40 World's Fair, and on his earliest memories of television

Barney McNulty on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair

E. Roger Muir on the first time he saw television in 1939, and on going to work for NBC

Arthur Penn on attending the 1939 World's Fair

Abraham Polonsky on first encountering television at the 1939 World's Fair

Joan Rivers on the first time she saw television at the 1939 World's Fair

Doris Roberts on seeing television at the 1939-40 World's Fair

Andy Rooney on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair

Romilly Rutherford on the television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair

Edgar Scherick on remembering seeing television at the 1939-40 World's Fair

Daniel Schorr on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair

Frank Stanton on his early awareness of television, and the introduction of television at the 1939 Worlds Fair

Robert Trout on covering the 1939 World's Fair

Ethel Winant on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair

David L. Wolper on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair and on his family's first television set