"My Dear Mr. President," 1939: Radio Broadcast of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes' Annual Report to the President (Part 2)

Title

"My Dear Mr. President," 1939: Radio Broadcast of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes' Annual Report to the President (Part 2)

Description

Photo shows production of the U.S. Department of Interior's radio play "My Dear Mr. President," broadcast on January 8, 1939, the subject of which was the Interior Secretary's annual report to the President (Source: "Not So Free Air," Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 11, 1939)

Part of the Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress)

Part 2- of the recording of the radio broadcast is presented in the attachment "Broadcast 2", which contains segments15 &16 of Interior Secretary's Harrold L. Ickes' Speech. This represents pages 42-46 of the Script, which is also attached. (The rest of the file is unrelated to the Department of Interior’s radio program. Due to the technical limitations, the Virtual Museum was not able to edit the second file to consist solely of parts 15 and 16 of that broadcast.)

Source: The Library of Congress.

Note to Museum Visitor

The attached broadcast recording and the pre-air script are related to an article by Professor Mordecai Lee,“Public Reporting in Public Administration, circa 1939: The Annual Report as Fictional Radio Stories.” The article is forthcoming in Public Voices (2016) Volume XV Number 1.

Creator

Harris & Ewing Photographer

Date

1939 January

Source

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/25800/25894r.jpg, https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/25900/25900r.jpg

Relation

Gallery Media: Script - See pp. 42 to 46 

Rights

First Photo: Members of the Cast - My Dear President 1939.

From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Second photo: From the U.S. Department of the Interior Radio.

Ickes' Report to the President, 1939

Publisher

Library of Congress

Contributor

Library of Congress

Format

Medium: Photograph

Language

English

Type

Radio

Identifier

Radio, Harold Ickes, Department of Interior, Public Reporting, Presidents, Interior Secretary

Coverage

Historic

Files

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/25800/25894r.jpg
https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/25900/25900r.jpg

Reference

Harris & Ewing Photographer, "My Dear Mr. President," 1939: Radio Broadcast of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes' Annual Report to the President (Part 2), Library of Congress, 1939 January

Cite As

Harris & Ewing Photographer, “"My Dear Mr. President," 1939: Radio Broadcast of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes' Annual Report to the President (Part 2),” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed April 18, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/507.