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TALKING HEADS

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CAMPAIGN HISTORY. During the 1908 presidential race, William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan sounded off in a new way as use of the phonograph got serious. In this 1908 French cartoon, mannequins of Taft and Bryan stand before cylinder phonographs blaring recordings of their voices. One New York City entrepreneur actually had such a setup, it was reported. Full story and early phonograph recordings.

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