| SUBJECT | VVL NUMBER | MAGIC CALL NO. | DESCRIPTION | SENT TO H-NET? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coughlin, Charles | vvl 701 | m195 - m196 bd1 | Charles Coughlin on social justice; November, 1935 | yes - 2 parts |
| Coughlin, Charles | vvl 706 | m394 bd5 | Coughlin; New Year's speech, 1937 | yes |
| Dies, Martin | vvl 827 | m2875 bd2 | Martin Dies addresses a mass meeting at Madison Square Garden; NBC, November 29, 1938 [anti-radicalism?] | yes |
| Farley, James | vvl 141 | m2584 bd 4 | James Farley speaks about radio and politics, 1936 | yes |
| Flint Sit Down | vvl 767 | m3931 bd3 | U.A.W. strike at GM, national guard at Chevrolet strike in Flint, Michigan, January 12, 1937 remembered by participants; PBS | yes |
| Ford, Henry | vvl 224 | m3079 bd 2 | Henry Ford campaigns for Hoover, 1932 | yes |
| Ford, Henry | vvl 232 | m281 bd 2 | Clara Ford at Henry's 75th birthday party, 1938 | yes |
| Ford, Henry | vvl 225 | m3079 bd 3 | Edsel and Henry Ford predict a good year for the nation, 1934 | yes |
| Ford, Henry | vvl 226 | m 3079 bd 4 | Henry Ford praises industry and morality of McGuffey readers | yes |
| Goodman, Benny | vvl 834 | m1965 bd1 | Benny Goodman - Let's Dance (radio program); January 26, 1935 - Broadcast by Ferris State College, January 26, 1935 | yes |
| Guthrie, Woody | vvl 786 | m784 bd2 - m785 | Guthrie with Bess Lomax: Dust Bowl refugees - 2 sound tape reels - Library of Congress, March 27, 1940 | yes - 2 parts |
| Guthrie, Woody | vvl 787 | m782 bd2 - m784 bd1 | Dust Bowl songs and conversation with Woody Guthrie - 3 sound tape reels - Library of Congress, March 22, 1940 | yes - 3 parts |
| Hoover, Herbert | vvl 755 | m4698 bd1 | Herbert Hoover speaks to the GOP National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on the subject The road to freedom, attacking the four-year record of Roosevelt's New Deal; 10 June 1936 | yes |
| Hoover, Herbert | vvl 675 | m540 bd 15 | Herbert Hoover campaign speech, 1932; offers alternative to radical "new deal" | yes |
| Hoover, Herbert | vvl 690 | m4696 bd5 | Hoover gives a readio address, from Elko, Nevada, on election eve 1932 - Recorded November 7, 1932 | yes |
| Ickes, Harold | m4309 bd1 | FDR's Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, campaigns against Wendell Wilkie's record late in the 1940 Presidential campaign - Ickes is introduced by the mayor of St. Louis. He cites public utilities as the source of public corruption; ties Wilkie to Samuel Insull, and Moe Annenberg; and talks about his advocacy of Consumers Power of Michigan - Oct. 18, 1940 [Ickes also featured on m4338 bd10 under "misc" below] | waiting to be digitized | |
| Ives, Burl | vvl 139 | m623 | "Lonesome Train" w/ Burl Ives, 1940 | not yet |
| labor | vvl 871 | m4531 bd1 | Michigan Public Radio looks at labor oratory - Broadcast on WKAR (East Lansing, Mich.), September 1987 - Includes the voices of Jimmy Hoffa, John L. Lewis and Walter Reuther | yes |
| LaFollette, Philip | vvl 757 | m3530 bd1 | Philip LaFollette addresses himself to ways of pulling out of the depression; Broadcast on The national radio forum, March 14, 1932. | yes |
| LaFollette, Robert | vvl 760 | m3531 bd2 | Robert M. LaFollette praises his brother Philip and the Wisconsin Progressive Party, talks about the depression and proposes a National Economic Council; Recorded March 14, 1932. | yes |
| Lewis, John | vvl 765 | m3646 bd1 | Lewis - Labor and the Supreme Court; WABC, New York, May 14, 1937 | yes |
| Lewis, John | vvl 776 | m2045 bd10 | John Lewis tells an outdoor rally that politicians will take away their wages unless they organize into unions; CBS-TV, 1932 | yes |
| Lewis, John | vvl 761 | m3532 bd1 | Lewis - Wages and hours; September 11, 1932 | yes |
| Lewis, John | vvl 763 | m3532 bd3 | John L. Lewis - Industrial democracy; description of the situation of labor in the US; December 31, 1936 | yes |
| Lewis, John | see "labor" above | |||
| Lindbergh, Charles | vvl 814 | m2581 bd2 | Charles Lindbergh says that commercial isolationism is no longer possible; CBS, August 8, 1930; Lindbergh also tells of regularly scheduled international air routes of the future, in his first formal broadcast - Broadcast on CBS, August 8, 1930 | yes |
| Long, Huey | vvl 764 | m1196 | documentary on the life and times of Huey Long - Broadcast on PBS-TV, October 15, 1986 - (includes some Francis Townsend) | yes |
| Long, Huey | vvl 696 | m522 bd1 | Huey Long; homesteads for every American family, 1934 | yes |
| misc | m4338 bd10 | Town meeting of the air - Will Rogers, narrator ; Merwin K. Hart, Robert Taft, John Sparkman, Glen H. Taylor, Norman Thomas, Theodore R. McKeldin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ogden Mills, Jerome Frank, Edward Burke, Dorothy Thompson, Francis J. Myers, Dwight Eisenhower, Hugo Black, Harold Ickes, Robert Jackson, Homer Ferguson, George Outlands, Ben Laney, Adlai Stevenson, Alben Barkley, Hugh Johnson, Wendell Willkie, Thomas Dewey, Goodwin Knight, and Harry Truman, speakers | waiting to be digitized | |
| misc | vvl 863 | m2458 | The Roosevelt years : 1933; - A series of original sounds, produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Adolf Hitler, "Row, row, row with Roosevelt on the Good Ship USA", Will Rogers, Duke Ellington, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Mae West, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Arthur Tracy, Burns & Allen, Cliff Edwards, Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon suite, Ethel Waters, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berrigan, medley from "Roberta", Katharine Hepburn, John, Lionel, and Ethel Barrymore in "Rasputin", medley from "Golddiggers" films, George Arliss, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Jimmy Durante, and Bing Crosby - KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973. | yes |
| misc | vvl 864 | m2462 | The Roosevelt years : 1934 - A series of original sounds, produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Pinky Tomlin, Shirley Temple, Noel Coward, Yvonne Printemps, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Fred Astaire, Cole Porter (singing "You're the top" and talking about Ethel Merman), Ethel Merman, Henry Busse, Borah Minevich, Harmonica Rascals, Nazi singers, Adolf Hitler, Rudolph Hess, "Horst Wessel song", Carl Brisson, Stoopnagle & Bud, Dick Powell, Grace Moore, Henry Fonda, Julie Harris, Russ Columbo - KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973. | yes |
| misc | vvl 865 | m2461 | The Roosevelt years : 1935 - A series of original sounds produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, Benny Goodman, Clyde McCoy, Avon Long, W.C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew, Ronald Coleman, Al Jolson, Huey Long, Fibber McGee & Molly, Noel Coward, Helen Hayes, Jeannette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy, Artie Shaw, Eleanor Powell, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Greta Garbo, Frederic March, Fred Astaire, Irene Dunne, King George V's last Christmas address, Dick Powell - KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973. | yes |
| misc | m2474 | The Roosevelt years : 1936 - A series of original sounds, produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, Benny Goodman, Mindy Carson, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Paul Muni, William Powell, Frank Morgan, Gene Raymond, Major Bowes, Perry Como, Rudy Vallee, Fiorello LaGuardia, Alf Landon, Bobby Breen, Hildegarde, Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, John Gielgud, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin, Ted Husing, Jesse Owens, B. Berrigan, Edward VIII, and Judy Garland - KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973. | sticky shed; not yet available | |
| misc | m2475 | The Roosevelt years : 1937 - A series of original sounds, produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, George M. Cohan, George VI, Hitler Youth singing, Andrews Sisters, John L. Lewis, Amelia Earhart, H. Morrison, James Melton, Paul Muni, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, FDR 2d inaugural, Larry Clinton, Ronald Coleman, Madeleine Carroll, Sam Jaffee, Claude & Clarence Straud, Bob Burns, Bergen & McCarthy, Rudy Vallee, Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Jack Benny, Fred Allen - KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973. | sticky shed; not yet available | |
| misc | vvl 868 | m2477 | The Roosevelt years : 1938 - A series of original sounds, produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, Artie Shaw, Adolf Hitler, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Harold Lloyd, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Kenny Baker, Mary Martin, Maurice Evans, Walter Huston, Abbott & Costello, Larry Clinton, Helen Ward, Neville Chamberlain, Orson Welles, Bob Crosby Dixieland, Alec Templeton, Shirley Temple, Lewis Stone, Raymond Massey, Irene Henry, Eddie Cantor, Clem McCarthy (at Louis-Schmeling fight), Bob Hope, Shirley Ross - Broadcast on KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973 | yes |
| misc | vvl 869 | m2502 | The Roosevelt years : 1939; - A series of original sounds, produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, Judy Garland, Andrews Sisters, Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Ronald Coleman, James Hilton, Tallulah Bankhead and Kent Smith, Carmen Miranda, Ink Spots, J. B. Priestley, Lou Gehrig, Kay Kyser, Wee Bonnie Baker, Jack Benny and Eddie Anderson, Jan Masyryk, Adolf Hitler, Robert Trout, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, John Barrymore, Neville Chamberlain, George Arliss, Kate Smith, and Winston Churchill. - KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973 | yes |
| misc | vvl 870 | m2501 | The Roosevelt years : 1940; - A series of original sounds, produced and narrated by John Salisbury; including FDR, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Ted Lewis, Charlie Chaplin, Pat O'Brien, Neville Chamberlain, Frank Sinatra, Ethel Barrymore, Gino Hamilton and the Henry Levine Orchestra, Benito Mussolini, Dick Kessner, Les Paul, Hildegarde, Edward R. Murrow, Dinah Shore, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Stimson, Joe Martin, Wendell Willkie, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Temple, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, Bing Crosby. - KXL, Portland, Ore., 1973. | yes |
| misc | vvl 233 | m459 bd2 | The Depression - PBS, April 20, 1980. Includes the voices of Thomas Edison, Gen. Smedley Butler, Amos and Andy, dustbowl victims, Jimmy Durante, Orson Welles, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, F.D.R., soupkitchen vagrants, Huey Long, Kate Smith, Philo Farnsworth, William Lyons Phelps, Eleanor Roosevelt, Irish Sweepstakes winners, Al Jolson, Dale Carnegie, H.G. Wells, Edward R. Morrow. |
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| misc | vvl 862 | m2234 | The Great Depression - includes the voices of John Kenneth Galbraith, Eric Sevareid, William Wright, General Smedley Butler, Al Jolson singing Hallelujah, I'm a bum, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin Cohen, Thomas Corcoran, Paul McCracken, and Sam Evans; CBS-TV, March 29, 1976. | yes |
| misc | vvl 739 (duplicated at vvl 740) | m618 bd1-14 | Radio in the 1930s (Part I) - NVL, April, 1964 - Shaw, Bernard; Crosby, Bing; Barkley, Alben William; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Hoover, Herbert; Long, Huey; Townsend, Francis E; Coughlin, Charles E.; Rogers, Will; Pius XII; Windsor, Edward, Duke of; Barrymore, John; Woollcott, Alexander; Allen, Fred; Benchley, Robert | yes |
| misc | vvl 736 | m619 bd1-14 | Radio in the 1930's (Part II) - NVL, April, 1964 - Fred
Allen; Delmar, Kenny; Donald, Peter, narrator;
Pious, Minerva; Fennelly, Parker; Boyer, Charles; Dunne, Irene; DeMille, Cecil B.; West, Mae; Dafoe, Allan Ray; Ortega, Santos; Ives, Burl; Robinson, Earl; Temple, Shirley; Earhart, Amelia; Lawrence, Gertrude; Cohan, George M; Shaw, Bernard; Hitler, Adolf; Chamberlain, Neville; Roosevelt, Franklin D. |
yes |
| Reuther, Walter | see "labor" above | |||
| Rockefeller, John D. | vvl 674 | m540 bd14 | John D. Rockefeller - Building a Better American - Fox Movietone, 1933 | yes |
| Rockefeller, John D. | vvl 540 | m1065 bd8 | Statement from his residence in Florida about his faith and hope in America - Broadcast on Fox Movietone, 1930 |
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| Rogers, Will | vvl 799 | m2279 bd9 | Will Rogers makes an appeal for charitable donations to help victims of the Dust Bowl - Oklahoma State Univeristy Archives, n.d. | yes |
| Rogers, Will | m2417 bd1 | Will Rogers on daylight savings time, plans, inheritance tax, Aimee Semple McPherson meeting Mahatma Gandhi, Huey Long, FDR, Mae West, the Astor fur trade, soldiers' bonus, and crossing railroad tracks - Broadcast on the Will Rogers radio show, 1936. | not approved | |
| Rogers, Will | vvl 801 | m2279 bd11 | Rogers talks about unemployment, poverty, prohibition - Oklahoma State University Archives, n.d. | yes |
| Rogers, Will | vvl 795 | m2279 bd5 | Will Rogers mocks the Wickersham report investing the abuses of the Volstead Act - Oklahoma State University Archives, n.d. | yes |
| Rogers, Will | vvl 800 | m2279 bd10 | Will Rogers predicts the reactions of future archaeologists digging up Claremore, Oklahoma and Washington, D.C. - Oklahoma State University Archives, n.d. | yes |
| Rogers, Will | vvl 810 | m2038 bd7 | Will Rogers; A tongue-in-cheek nomination of Henry Ford to be President of the United States, 1931 - Recorded by Keith Bollwahn, 1931 - Rogers says Ford's only shortcoming being that he's too competent, and that "there ought to be a Ford in the White House, they're everywhere else." | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 33c1 | m2266 bd7 | FDR reads first number of draft; mother in audience screams, 1941 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 717 | m1034 bd6 | Excerpt of acceptance of nomination at 1932 Democratic National Convention - Broadcast on CBS, 1932 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 34 | m2267 bd1 | FDR asks Congress to declare war on Japan, 12/8/41 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 230 | m1056 bd 4 | Charles Dawes and FDR speak on Brotherhood Day, 1936 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 463 | m521 bd 2 | FDR - Pearl Harbor Day fireside chat; Dec 9, 1941 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 283 | m716 | Franklin Roosevelt; fireside chat on reorganization of the judicial system, March 9, 1937 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 604 | m3921 bd8 | Twentieth-century presidents of the United States : contributions reviewed chronologically, with actual voices from the inaugurations from F.D. Roosevelt through R.M. Nixon | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 605 | m905 | Franklin Roosevelt's fireside talk discussing necessity of speed-up in national defense and reviewing accomplishments of military and economic preparedness so far - Broadcast on CBS, May 26, 1940 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | vvl 753 | m1942 bd5 | Rexford Tugwell describes and plays tapes of FDR's first inauguration - Recorded by L.L. Carey, March 4, 1975 | yes |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | m982 | Address to the special session of Congress; WJR, September 21, 1939 - Roosevelt requests a repeal of the embargo act of trading with belligerents in war materials. | tape missing | |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | m3921 bd8 | FDR, first inaugural; "nothing to fear but fear itself" | waiting to be digitized | |
| Spanish Civil War | vvl 838 | m4804 bd1 | American chorus sings songs of the Spanish Civil War in Spanish and English, many dealing with the fighting of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1939 - Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Butch Hawes, Bess Lomax | yes |
| Terkel, Studs | vvl 781 | m1944 bd7 | Studs Terkel talks about the sense of shame felt by the unemployed during the great depression and of the aspirations of working people; NPR, March 19, 1975 | yes |
| Tugwell, Rexford | vvl 751 | m971-m972 bd1 | Rexford Tugwell - Memoirs of the New Deal - An informal talk with Dean Zelman Cowen (University of Melbourne) at Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California, 1962 | yes - 2 parts |
| Tugwell, Rexford | vvl 753 | m1942 bd5 | Tugwell describes and plays tapes of FDR's first inauguration - Recorded by L.L. Carey, March 4, 1975 | yes |
| Wallace, Henry | vvl 263 | m272 bd 2 | Henry Wallace on the future outlook, 1938 | yes |
| Wells, H.G. | vvl 830 | m2869 bd3 | H. G. Wells talks about the need for the study of the future growing out of the accelerating forward rush of technology; Gift from the National Archives #200-1532, 1932 | yes |
| Welty, Eudora | m4837 bd9 | Eudora Welty talks about her career as a photographer for the WPA project documenting rural Mississippi during the depression; CBS-TV (Sunday Morning), February 18, 1990 | not approved | |
| Wilkie, Wendell | vvl 695 | m378 bd2 | Wendell Wilkie, 1940 campaign speech; attacks recovery program | yes |