Hunt," "They Dare Not Love," "Night Train," "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," "Dispatch from Reuter's," "Underground," and "Foreign Correspondent") studied by the subcommittee of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that investigated alleged dissemination. of war propaganda before U.S. entry into World War II. SOUND RECORDINGS. 1892-1966. 1,618 items. Speeches, Interviews, and Panel Included are recordings of speeches of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower; and speeches and parts of speeches of Presidents Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Kennedy, 1892-1961. Also recordings of speeches, interviews, and panel discussions by a large number of prominent persons, including Thomas A. Edison, Adm. Robert E. Peary, Amelia Earhart, Will Rogers, Norman Thomas, Henry A. Wallace, Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Alben W. Barkley, Adlai E. Stevenson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Winston Churchill, King George VI of Great Britain, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mahatma Gandhi, and a number of Senators and Representatives; and well-known singers, actors, writers, religious leaders, World War I heroes, and combat airmen of World War II. Radio and Special Events Recordings Included are recordings of radio coverage of the Hindenburg disaster, 1937; the day of September 21, 1939, including the President's neutrality message delivered before Congress; the 24 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; the first 36 hours of the Allied invasion of Europe, June 6, 1944; the 3 days following the death of President Roosevelt, April 12, 1945; V-J Day; the signings of the German and Japanese surrender documents; highlights of the Nuremberg trial; the Nuremberg executions; and the 1960 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Also recordings relating to National Defense Day, 1924; the sesquicentennial celebration of the Constitution, 1936; the centennial celebration of the American patent system, 1936; the laying of the cornerstone of the Roosevelt Library, 1939; and the Inter-Asia Relations Conference at New Delhi, 1947. Other Recordings Included are recordings of British refugee children in the United States broadcasting Christmas greetings in 1941 to their parents in England; the sound of an atomic test at Yucca Flats, Nev., 1953; hearings of the Special Senate Committee on the Communication Satellite bill, 1962; relating to activities of the National Tuberculosis Association, 1939-44; and promoting the Junior League baseball program of the American Legion, 1946. Also recordings of dramas including eight Shakespearean plays and a biography of Matthew Fontaine Maury; of a concert presented by the American Society of Composers and Publishers, September 24, 1940; of "Wing of Expectation," an opera in three acts based on the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, libretto and music by Kenneth Wright, 1965; from a series of talking books prepared by the American Foundation for the Blind; comparing the speech patterns of various parts of the United States; concerning the history of political convention's; and from Edward R. Murrow's "I Can Hear It Now" series. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: X-rays and photographs relating to the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy. Restrictions: Access to these materials is limited to persons authorized to act for a committee of Congress, a Presidential commission, or any other agency of the Federal Government having authority to investigate matters relating to the assassination of President Kennedy; and recognized experts in the field of pathology or related areas of science or technology for serious purposes relevant to the investigation of matters relating to the death of President Kennedy. The determination of whether such an expert has suitable qualifications and serious purposes will be made by the Kennedy family representative. Specified by: Archivist of the United States in conformity with the letter agreement between the Administrator of General Services and the Kennedy family representative dated October 29, 1966. NATIONAL ARCHIVES GIFT COLLECTION OF MATERIALS RELATING TO POLAR REGIONS (RECORD GROUP 401) Under authority of acts of September 5, 1950, and July 12, 1952, amending the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, the National Archives accepts donated historical materials of prominent explorers and scientists and private firms relating to U.S. activities in the Arctic and Antarctic. There are 514 cubic feet of records dated between 1865 and 1968 in this record group. RECORDS. 1865-1968. 500 lin. ft. Included are Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers, ca. 1865-1945, consisting of field notebooks, manuscripts for publication, correspondence, maps (ca. 150 items), and drawings and photographs (ca. 3,000 items) created by him or relating especially to his arctic explorations and his service in Central America (175 lin ft.); Mrs. Marie Peary Kuhne Papers, ca. 1920-66, including correspondence and memorabilia of Admiral Peary's daughter (7 lin. ft.); Paul A. Siple Papers, 1905-65, including expedition journals, scientific notes, scientific and other writings, correspondence, publications relating to polar regions, cartographic mate rial (ca. 150 items), photographs and sketches (ca. 5,000 items), motion pictures (15 reels), and sound recordings (20 items) of an antarctic explorer, geographer, and member of Adm. Richard E. Byrd's and other polar expeditions (150 lin. ft.); Mrs. Paul A. Siple Papers, 1926-68, including correspondence, college notebooks, biological notes and sketches, and photographs (2 lin. ft. and ca. 25 items); Carl R. Eklund Papers, 1935-62, consisting of journals, manuscripts of publications, scientific notes, field notebooks, correspondence, cartographic material (5 items), and photographs of an antarctic explorer, zoologist, member of the U.S. Antarctic Service, and station scientific leader at Wilkes Station, 1957-58 (5 lin, ft.); Stevenson Corey Papers, 1931-36, including diaries, journals, correspondence, supply lists, memorabilia, and photographs of a member of the 1933-35 Byrd Antarctic Expedition (2 lin. ft.); Alton A. Lindsey Papers, 1933-52, including journals, notebooks, research notes, correspondence, maps (5 items), photographs (ca. 2,000 items), motion pictures (2 reels), and sound recordings (2 items) of a biologist with the 1933-35 Byrd Antar Expedition and the 1951 Purdue-Canadi- Also Maj. Palle Mogensen Papers, gava Bay, July 1929, collected by a journalist with the Chicago Tribune; Col. Charles J. Hubbard Papers, 1931-54, consisting of reports, biographical material, photographs (ca. 150 items), correspondence, and publications of a pioneer arctic pilot (9 lin. ft.); John A. Pope Papers, 1927, consisting of a journal and photographs (ca. 100 items) taken while aboard the Morrissey off the Foxe Peninsula; Paul Sullivan Papers, 1919-58, including notes, manuscript maps (ca. 50 items), and photographs (ca. 50 items) relating to the research, compilation, and printing of The Dynamic North, Canadian North, and Meteorology of the Arctic (3 lin. ft.); Duncan Stewart VII Papers, 1920-69, including a diary, correspondence, publications on polar regions, a motion pic ture, and scrapbooks on the rescue of two pilots in 1928, of a geologist and authority on the geology and petrography of Antarctica (14 lin. ft.); Russell W. Porter Papers, 1890-1940, including diaries and journals, field notebooks, correspondence, newsclippings, memorabilia, photographs and paintings, pastels, watercolors, and pencil sketches (ca. 250 items) to illustrate the unpublished manuscript of his autobiography "Arctic Fever," of an explorer, leader of three expeditions to Greenland, and member of the Baldwin-Ziegler, 1901-2, and Fiala-Ziegler, 1903-5, expeditions to Franz Josef Land and two Frederick A. Cook expeditions, 1894 and 1906 (8 lin. ft.); Dayton Brown Papers, 1946, includ ing 32 oil paintings of the Arctic (8 lin. ft.); and Herman R. Friis Papers, 192070, including diaries, journals, and maps (ca. 175 items) relating to service on antarctic and other expeditions, corre spondence, lecture manuscripts, research notes in historical geography and cartography, publications, photographs (ca. 5,000 items), and sound recordings (4 items) of a cartographer, geographer, archivist, and Director of the Center for Polar Archives (75 lin. ft.). |