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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
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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.
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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