The Election of Thomas Jefferson

in Washington, D.C. On this 17th day of February 1801, the members of the House are about to try again to elect a President of the United States. Soon they will take the 36th ballot and hope this time to break the six-day deadlock between Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

Jefferson is still one state short of the required nine-state majority, and the Nazis elected on this 36th ballot. The events of the past two days indicate that violence and bloodshed will descend on this infant's capitol.

The 16 tellers appointed by the Speaker of the House will poll their states, then they will drop the boat in the two ballot boxes provided by the Sergeant-in-law. The boat is coming up. The boat is coming up.

February 17th, October 18th, 2021. The federal House of the Red... CBS takes you back 147 years. It is less than a generation since the end of the revolution which established the United States of America.

Now the young republic faces the threat of another revolution arising out of a deadlocked presidential election. All things are as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there, you are there. You are there as produced and directed by Robert Louis Cheyenne and Walter Hamden plays Thomas Jefferson in today's broadcast.

You are there as based on authentic historical fact and quotation. And now, a- About in spite of the fact that Jefferson received the majority of the popular vote, a group of willful men in the Federalist Party, losers in the popular vote are still trying desperately to block the people's choice.

A tie in the Electoral College through this election into the House of Representatives, and here, the Federalists are still hoping to elect Aaron Burr. When he was met to beat Jefferson's running mate on the successful Democratic Republican ticket, they think of Aaron Burr, a lesser evil than Thomas Jefferson.