The first radio serial’s theme song celebrated the Ku Klux Klan

Evidence

Adding what seems now a further coat of racism, the music director chose “The Perfect Song,” the theme from The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith’s 1915 hit film glorifying the Ku Klux Klan. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 307

Categorization

• CANDY: A startling, tweetable historical tidbit—the first broadcast serial’s theme music came from Birth of a Nation.