Inaugural Media Coverage: From Telegraph to the Internet
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
From the telegraph to the Internet
| by Borgna Brunner Source: Architect of the Capitol |
First inaugural to be covered by telegraph:
James Polk (March 4, 1845)
First newspaper illustration of a presidential inauguration:
Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853)
First inaugural to be photographed:
James Buchanan (March 4, 1857)
First inaugural recorded by a movie camera:
William McKinley (March 4, 1897)
First inaugural broadcast nationally by radio:
Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925)
First inaugural recorded by a talking newsreel:
Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929)
First inaugural televised:
Harry S. Truman (January 20, 1949)
First closed-captioning of a television broadcast for the hearing impaired:
Ronald Reagan (Jan. 20, 1981)
First inaugural to be broadcast live on the Internet:
Bill Clinton (Jan. 20, 1997)
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