Presidents On Record

Presidents On Record The first U.S. president to make a record was Rutherford B. Hayes, when Thomas Edison took a tinfoil phonograph to the White House for a demonstration on 18 Apr 1878. Benjamin Harrison was the first to make a commercial record, for Bettini; but the record was never described or listed in a Bettini catalog; no copy is known to exist. No live recording was made of William McKinley’s last speech, 5 Sep 1901, just before his assassination, but many records were marketed with…