[78-L] Day of Infamy Speech

[David Lennick]

By the way, last week I picked up the red Columbia issue of this speech. Long 
sides..side 2 runs 4:01! Not the longest Columbia ever put on a ten-inch wax 
(Paul Whiteman's 'Sweet Sue' tops that, and they did very long sides in the 
fifties).

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David Lennick wrote:
> 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.
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> dl
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> 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?
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>> thanks,
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>> Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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