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April 24, 1941: AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE : LINDBERGH RALLY. i 2 j I covered the meeting of the above organization,held 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 rhite tickets which had been given away but there was a good nucber of people holding blue tickets which I 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 holds “ ‘“ ' only 4,500 and a second hall in the same building holds - an additional 2,500.- Apparently this excess distribution ( \ of tickets was effected deliberately by the sponsors in ~™ \a : 7 ~<¢ grder to get a crowd on the street. ok! Like the reporters for the N.Y. Tymes Bob Byrd and G. Hugh O'Connor I observed a disproportionately large number in the street crowd who ARGQPRARH ADEXED, GPs NisbhE — ay ‘ was a fair sprinkling of Italian accents bu FERGAL RURGALLUH ys ESTIGATION 8 MAY 20 U941