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Pryor (Roy) radio broadcast collection
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  • Title: Roy Pryor radio broadcast collection
    Date (inclusive): 1941-1942
    Collection Number: XX650
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: Number of Items: 57 phonorecords (5.7 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Relates to American neutrality in World War II, the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and the first weeks of American participation in the war. Includes speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and newscasts.
    source: Pryor, Roy
    Creator: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
    Creator: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Roy Pryor radio broadcast collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographial Note

    Roy Pryor was a hobbyist who, from the mid-1930s until the late 1940s, recorded radio broadcasts onto transcription discs in his home. During the early part of World War II he and his family made a special point of trying to capture programs related to the conflict in Europe and the Pacific. As a teacher and dean of the Menlo School and Junior College, he used some of these recordings in class and made them available to other educational institutions.
    Source of information: "Pryor Collection," Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University, available at http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ars/collections/pryor.html, accessed October 23, 2009.

    Related Collections

    Pryor collection, Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Sound recordings
    United States -- Foreign relations
    Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
    World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
    Neutrality -- United States
    Pryor, Roy