Audio-Scriptions Transcription Disc 1945 WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS EVE GREETINGS
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- RARE RECORDING - 
(Audio-Scriptions Transcription Disc)
 WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS EVE GREETINGS 1945  

 



Disc appears unplayed with some soiling and at most a light scuff or two; record sleeve for three-ring binder in very good vintage condition.
Label reads:
Name: Jeremy S. Jackson and Miss Ann Miller
Title: Christmas Eve greetings / White House 1945 (WJZ / 12/24/45
Notes: Disc not played (no machine) but the assumption is this is a recording from a radio broadcast of Harry Truman's 1945 tree lighting ceremony - the first post-WWII ceremony to include electric lighting (see passage below). 

"10,000 people attended Truman’s first Christmas tree lighting ceremony as President, which took place on the South Lawn of the White House. While lighting the tree with electricity was suspended during World War II, President Truman returned the bright lights to the tree on Christmas Eve 1945. 
“This is the Christmas that a war-weary world has prayed for through long and awful years,” he remarked solemnly. “With our enemies vanquished we must gird ourselves for the work that lies ahead. Peace has its victories no less hard won than success at arms…With that message I wish my countrymen a Merry Christmas and joyous days in the New Year.”

creditseleased July 1, 1981 All music by Storm Bugs, sleeve design by Yann Farcy of L'invitation au Suicide.




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