Live radio broadcast starring Orson Welles, Lionel Barrymore, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee....

Just eight days after Pearl Harbor, WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS was broadcast live on all four American radio networks. 60 million listened! The largest audience ever to hear a live dramatic performance!
Army Corporal Jimmy Stewart narrates.
Starring Orson Welles, Lionel Barrymore, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Elliott Lewis, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold, Bob Burns, and more.
Concludes with a live address by President Franklin Roosevelt.
Written, directed and produced by Norman Corwin.
Score composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
National Anthem performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
December 15, 1941 marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights.
We Hold These Truths was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2004.