Actually, just about every radio utterance of FDR's was recorded, paid for by Thomas Watson of IBM. A while ago (30 years ago?), the records were at the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park where I inspected them. They are either still there or at National Archives.
There are many other sources for most of his major speeches as well.
Steve Smolian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 12:57 PM Subject: [ARSCLIST] FDR Recordings (was Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recorded Sound Preservation Study)
> George Brock-Nannestad wrote: > >> I don't know enough about US history, but it seems that there must be a >> printed collection of Franklin Roosevelt's broadcast speeches, from which >> the yellow parts have been recorded. First I thought it was a private >> off-air recording, but the selection is too precise, unless it is from an >> announced repeat broadcast. So, if it is indeed Roosevelt's voice, it >> must be a dubbing from someone else's aircheck. However, it may be a >> completely different person, reciting at a later date than 29 December >> 1940 those parts of Roosevelt's speech. All in all it seems to be on the >> fringe of oral history. The provenance means everything under those >> circumstances. > > I have a six-LP set of "F.D.R. Speaks" with introduction by Eleanor > Roosevelt and annotation by Henry Steele Commager. His speeches while in > office were routinely recorded; these are selected from first inaugural to > one read by his son which he did not live to deliver. > > My guess is that many or all were recorded by the Signal Corps which > surely had both the technology and the charter to do so. Whether the glass > disc in question came from such a source is another question. > > Mike > -- > mrichter@xxxxxxx > http://www.mrichter.com/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.16/552 - Release Date: > 11/26/2006 > >