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Watch on Internet a speech by U.S, Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long “Share the Wealth” and speech by John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers President. Enter in Google “Huey Long Share the Wealth speech” and “John L. Lewis Centralia.” The Lewis speech is a series of four short clips of about two minutes each of his testimony before Congress following the collapse of a mine in Centralia Illinois that resulted in the deaths or injuries of many mine workers. The Long speech is from the 1930s. The Lewis testimony, early 1950s.. Write an essay about the delivery styles of the two speakers. Focus on delivery not content, e.g. gestures, vocal variety, changes of pitch and volume, pauses, voice. Lewis is seated because that is the customary position for witnesses giving testimony before to Congress.
