1936, it was hot, it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front of the crowd that the crowd was about 80,000 but the police actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people, and, again, this was in 1936 so if you want to adjust that for inflation like it was a dollar amount, if you want to adjust thatto account for how big the population was of the country, 100,000 people compared to the overall size of the country would translate to a crowd of like 250,000, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election and that huge, huge, huge rally on labor day weekend in chicago in 1936, that was os sentencely a rally in support of his presid
he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election and that huge, huge, huge rally on labor day weekend in chicago in 1936, that was os sentencely a rally in support of his presidential campaign. but lemke s campaign did nothing. lemke himself held a rally a day before and got less than 10,000 to show up when it came to election day in november of 1936, lemke got less than 2% of the vote. he is somebody who has not only been forgotten by history he was forgotening while he was still happening. i mean, he was just nothing didn t move the needle at all. the only reason 100,000 people turned out for a lemke-related rally on a hot september day for something-something related to