The 1936 Republican National Convention. Photo courtesy the Arthur B. Church Collection.

Many of the voices in the KMBC collection belong to United States' Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Harry S. Truman.

Listening copies of these discs are available in the Marr Sound Archives at Miller Nichols Library. Check the MERLIN Library Catalog for more information on these recordings.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Fireside Chats to the major radio networks. Photo Credit: The U.S. National Archives.

INTERNATIONAL LEADERS
ADDRESS THE WORLD

• .King Edward VIII delivers his Abdication Speech
• .Pope Pius XI Radio speaks from the Vatican
• .Winston Churchill speaks to American audiences
• .Coverage of Adolph Hitler with CBS analysis

Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945. Photo: Public Domain.

U.S. PRESIDENTS AND NATIONAL POLITICAL FIGURES

• Franklin Theodore Roosevelt's Fireside Chats.
• Campaign and inauguration speeches from U.S. Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower.
• Radio addresses from Herbert Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

LACQUER DISCS

Many of these speeches were digitized from instantaneous cut discs made out of metal lacquer. While some discs broke down beyond repair due to severe cellulose acid degradation, a generous percentage of these recordings have been digitally restored and are available in the Marr Sound Archives upon request.