[78-L] Day of Infamy Speech

[Michael Biel]

Of course I have the entire broadcasts with the debate from the house of
representatives on CBS and Mutual, and the speech and commentary on NBC
all from the original discs, plus some home recordings, and both the
Victor and Columbia issues.  I also have the film (minus two sentences)
of the speech from the 3 1/2 hour C-SPAN telecast I did on the 50th
anniv, Dec 7, 1991.  The two missing sentences 2/3s of the way in the
speech came from the fact that it had to be pieced together from the
four segments the Sherman Grinburg archive had of the Fox Movietone
version.  Something got lost in the cuttings.  Ironically, Ray Wile
reminded me shortly after the telecast that Blackhawk Films had earlier
been selling the speech on 8 and 16 mm sound for more than a decade. 
Neither the National Archive nor the Library of Congress had a film of
the total speech or any of the debate until my C-SPAN telecast.  

What version were you asking about?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

   -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: Re: [78-L] Day of Infamy Speech
 From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
 Date: Fri, September 11, 2009 6:46 pm
 To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
 
 Columbia 36516: 'War message to Congress', CO.31934; 'War message to
the
 nation', CO.31935.
 
 On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
 
 > I'm sure that I used to have a Columbia recording of FDR's
declaration of
 > war.
 >
 > Bud
 >
 > -------Original Message-------
 >
 > From: David Lennick
 > Date: 09/11/09 18:19:04
 > To: 78-L Mail List
 > Subject: Re: [78-L] Day of Infamy Speech
 >
 > Rust lists it as "Washington DC, December 8, 1941" and title is
"Address to
 > the
 > Congress of the United States (Declaration of War)", issued as Victor
27754
 > and
 > HMV B 9262. Why, I wonder, does it have HMV matrix numbers? If it was
 > broadcast, Victor could have just taken the NBC feed.
 >
 > dl
 >
 > David Lewis wrote:
 > > Is anyone conversant with the provenance of the "Day of Infamy"
speech?
 > What source does it come from? Multiple sources? Broadcast? Film? If
 > broadcast, how complete is it, and what Network is it from?
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > thanks,
 > >
 > > Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com