Episode 18: Margaret Bourke-White and the NBC Mural Debacle

Margaret Bourke-White was commissioned for what was to be the largest photo-mural in the world for the newly-constructed 30 Rockefeller Plaza.  She worked furiously and it was unveiled in December, 1933.  At the opening ceremony, what someone had done to her work would upset her so badly she omitted the whole affair from her autobiography.

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