Anonymous ID: a0810d Oct. 7, 2023, 2:08 a.m. No.19684464   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4998

>>19684420

Not accurate tweet. The first movie to be screened at the White House was in 1915 under Woodrow Wilson.

 

On Feb 18 1915, the first screening of a major motion picture took place inside the walls of the White House. President Woodrow Wilson instructed it at the request of a friend Thomas Dixon Jr., author of The Clansman, a radical novel published in 1905, which skewed the Reconstruction era by heroizing the Ku Klux Klan’s efforts against an illicit uprising by former slaves in the South.

 

Dixon’s book had just become a film version, retitled “The Birth of a Nation.” and directed by D.W. Griffith.

 

Wilson was familiar with the book and its subject matter.

 

https://unrememberedhistory.com/2017/08/17/when-racism-came-to-the-white-house/

 

https://theconversation.com/100-years-ago-the-first-white-house-film-screening-sparked-nationwide-protests-37103