Christmas Eve 1941 is a special day in American History. We were only 14 days from the horrific attack on Pearl Harbor. This was the first Christmas that we were celebrating since we entered the War. At the capital, FDR was entertaining Winston Churchill. They became fast friends and stayed up late drinking brandy. On this christmas eve both FDR and Churchill gave a speech. The audio is a little hard to listen to as it was recorded outside.
There are not many recordings that have survived from that date. There is an Amos and Andy Christmas show and a Glenn Miller Chesterfield show that has survived but not much else. Big Band Bash has a couple of excerpts on he program. One is from NPR and the other is from historian and author David McCullough. I hope you get a chance to listen to it but if not you can listen at KTXK.org or better yet you can subscribe to the podcast.
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