[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafter found in oval office

[Ken Kaplan]

I love it! Never saw that before. So non PC. A company probably couldn't 
get away with that now. I guess we are getting perfecter and perfecter 
over time <g>

Peter May - VK6ZPM wrote:
> Was probably used for this purpose:
> http://www.radionewjerusalem.com/Radio/CastroAd.gif
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter
> VK6ZPM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ross Stenberg" <k9cox at charter.net>
> To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Hallicrafter found in oval office
> 
> 
>> It was used as a supplemental heating source in the White House.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Pardon if this is old news. I was doing a little Internet "study"
>>> tonight and found a picture of President Harry Truman and Adlai
>>> Stevenson in the oval office in 1952. Behind the presidents desk and
>>> between the two sits what appears to me to be a Hallicrafters receiver.
>>> No?
>>>
>>> Go to www.answers.com and enter Adlai Stevenson. Scroll down about half
>>> way to see the image. You can click on it to make it bigger. Wonder
>>> where that radio ended up? Probably in that warehouse shown at the end
>>> of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.
>>>
>>> Hint for Duane: SX-28
>>>
>>> Now if I could only find Waldo...
>>>
>>> 73 Ken kb7rgg