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From the telegraph to the Internet

First inaugural to be covered by telegraph: James Polk (March 4, 1845)

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First newspaper illustration of a presidential inauguration: Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853)

 

First inaugural to be photographed: James Buchanan (March 4, 1857)

First inaugural recorded by a movie camera: William McKinley (March 4, 1897)

First inaugural broadcast nationally by radio: Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925)

First inaugural recorded by a talking newsreel: Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929)

First inaugural televised: Harry S. Truman (January 20, 1949)

First closed-captioning of a television broadcast for the hearing impaired: Ronald Reagan (Jan. 20, 1981)

First inaugural to be broadcast live on the Internet: Bill Clinton (Jan. 20, 1997)

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