Photo #: 208-CN-3992
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Addressing the United States Congress, in a joint session of
the Senate and House of Representatives.
This photograph, from U.S. Office of War Information files in
the National Archives, has long been identified as the President
delivering his war message on 8 December 1941, the day after
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
However, a note with the original photograph states that the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (Hyde Park, NY) has said that the
view is not of that event. If that is the case, it may represent
the 1941 or 1942 State of the Union Address, as the presiding
officers (seated behind the President) are Vice President Henry
A. Wallace and House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Photographed by Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Photograph from the Office of War Information collection in
the U.S. National Archives.
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