President Harry S. Truman spoke at 10 p.m. from the White House. His address to the Armed Forces was broadcast over the Armed Forces Radio Service and was carried over the major networks. He spoke of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the nation's gratitude to the Armed Forces during this war time.
Records are damaged so the speech can not be completely understood, 6 discs, 12 inchRecieved master and reference reel-to-reel tapes from National Archives, NLThese are better quality than the 33/4 tape recordingsReel 1: 29 minReel 2: 24 min
Annual message to the Congress on the State of the Union, President Harry S. Truman. Sound recording is in three parts. Most of the address is recorded in parts 1 and 2; part 3 only has the last sentence of Truman's address.