A Day of Thanksgiving

Video Title :	A Day of Thanksgiving
Description :	Please enjoy this Happy Thanksgiving movie brought to you by Movies in Your Home. Watch More movies at http://MoviesInYourHome.com About this day of Thanksgiving... In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be the next-to-last Thursday of November rather than the last. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought this would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped, would aid bringing the country out of the Depression. At the time, it was considered inappropriate to advertise goods for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. However, Roosevelt's declaration was not mandatory; twenty-three states went along with this recommendation, and 22 did not. Other states, like Texas, could not decide and took both weeks as government holidays. Roosevelt persisted in 1940 to celebrate his "Franksgiving," as it was termed. The U.S. Congress in 1941 split the difference and established that the Thanksgiving would occur annually on the fourth Thursday of November, which was sometimes the last Thursday and sometimes the next to last. On November 26 that year President Roosevelt signed this bill into U.S. law. Since 1947, or possibly earlier, the National Turkey Federation has presented the President of the United States with one live turkey and two dressed turkeys. The live turkey is pardoned and lives out the rest of its days on a peaceful farm. While it is commonly held that this tradition began with Harry Truman in 1947, the Truman Library has been unable to find any evidence for this. Still others claim that that the tradition dates back to Abraham Lincoln pardoning his son's pet turkey.[2] Both stories have been quoted in more recent presidential speeches. In more recent years, two turkeys have been pardoned, in case the original turkey becomes unavailable for presidential pardoning. Since 2003 the public has been invited to vote for the two turkeys' names. In 2006, they were named Flyer and Fryer. In 2005, they were named Marshmallow and Yam (who went on to live at Disneyland); 2004's turkeys were named Biscuit and Gravy; in 2003, Stars and Stripes. Since 1970, a group of Native Americans and others have held a controversial National Day of Mourning protest on Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Video Length :	12 : 26

Comments :

I wish i was living back than...radio shows,real food,great ctors and actresses and clothes and great real music...no guns in the streets,drug dealings,gangs...true money tough..but stongs morals,people respected each other...everyone new there neighbor.the world we know today has gone to pot.

If this short came on before a movie I went to see, I'd have been shouting for Moe, Larry and Curly!

The Johnson's Americana of 1951...tranquil, but corny. Wow...I bet these guys were in shock when the '60s hit. Two worlds collide.

Times sure have changed... These days the stores give you a free turkey just for shopping there. I guess birds were running at more of a premium when Bill Johnson and his family were doing their thing back in 1951.

thank you so very much for the share and taking many of us back to a time past when life was far more simple to understand, and families held true to their to their values and respect.

This Thanksgiving was special this year, and watching this video re-emphasized what I'm thankful for. While greatful for what America means to me, I thank God for what He has provided. Thank you for your video!

You know when this was filmed in 1952 we had a lot to be thankful for. Much of Europe had not recoved and were starving. Stalin and Mao were having their political purges. In 1952 and now we have a lot to be thankful for.

Very "cool":)

God bless you for posting And happy blessed thanksgiving!

I was looking for somthing like this all over but couldn't find anything So for uplifting spirts on this thanksgiving holiday I'm sending this to all my friends and family God bless!