i'd like to -- [applause] >> i'd like to thank thomas geoghegan. >> thomas geoghegan is a practicing attorney and author of several books including "which side are you on?" and "see you in court." to find out more visit his website, tomgeoghegan.com. >> next ted gup talk to his grandfather, sam stone, and the anonymous 5-dollar check ck2 150 residents of canton, ohio, just before christmas 1933 during the height of the great depression. mr. stoned writing under the pseudonym place an ad in a canton newspaper asking people affected by the depression to write to him and described the difficulties they were experiencing. he selected 150 of these to send checks to. 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 wa