Rockefeller Center

This guide to Rockefeller Center in New York City centers on the spring of 1933, when officials pulled communist muralist Diego Rivera from his scaffold mid-project and handed him his final check. You'll hear how Nelson Rockefeller asked Rivera to paint over Vladimir Lenin's face in the unfinished mural, and how Rivera refused rather than see it altered. The guide follows the mural's fate as it disappeared behind a drape for nine months, before workers were finally sent back to the wall.