after coming into contact with the letters decades later, mr. gup went back again to find out who these unknown recipients were and what ended up happening to them. he spoke at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. >> [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] >> those were the hard times. and i want to take you to another place, which is my hometown of canton, ohio. i want to take you to the week of christmas 1933. unemployment was 50%. that's the best guess. nobody knows for sure, and it didn't matter because there was no one to help them. the number was academic. there was no social security. there was no medicaid. there was no unemployment. there was no fdic. you dropped, there was no one to catch you. that week on december 18, a small ad appeared in the canton repository newspaper. it was addressed to the community and basically said if you're hurting, you write to me, tell me what you are going through, and i will help you in a small way before christmas. this was the summer 18, 1933. the