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"World's Fair" (September 15, 2013)

Carlos Delgado

Shep visits the 1964 New York World's Fair

Millions of people descended upon Flushing Meadows to visit the 1964 New York World's Fair. Jean Shepherd was among them and in this program from September 15, 1964, he gives his listeners a first-hand account of some of the pavilions.

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