1944 ORSON WELLES President LINCOLN FDR Speeches IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION A-394
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From Orson Well's adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , companion piece to his MACBETH and Merchant of Venice
Orson Welles, famous for his PWA sponsored Plays of Cradle will rock, and the all-black Voodoo- Macbeth with the Mercury Theatre on the Air for the radio.
Here gives us a War Time reading of great Presidential Speeches
August 31 & September 9, 1944; August 20, 1945[1]:341 In the American Tradition
Three 12" 78 rpm records Decca Records (A-394)
Welles reads
Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address (March 4, 1801),
Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address (March 4, 1865),
Woodrow Wilson's address to the Peace Conference in Paris (January 25, 1919),
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first war address before Congress (January 6, 1942)[12]
Orig issue 3x 12" Decca 78 rpm record w orig Album A-394
Condition Records: EXCELLENT close to PRISTINE, faintest scuffs, plays very very quiet lightest crackle
ALBUM GREAT, tiny roughing at corners, small split bottom 3cm of spine'
A GREAT COPY
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