{"id":62537,"date":"2025-04-08T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62537"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:49:47","slug":"harry-trumans-hallicrafters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/harry-trumans-hallicrafters\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Truman\u2019s Hallicrafters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Robert, who shares the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Thomas – I visited the President Truman Library today and noticed an interesting item in their Oval Office recreation. It appears that not only did Mr. Truman have the first television inside the Oval Office, he apparently also had a Hallicrafters model SX-28 right behind his desk.<\/p>\n

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One wonders what stations he would specifically listen to, and what type of antenna was installed at the White House for this radio?<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Robert, who shares the following: Hi Thomas – I visited the President Truman Library today and noticed an interesting item in their Oval Office recreation. It appears that not only did Mr. Truman have the first television inside the Oval Office, he apparently also had a Hallicrafters model SX-28 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1271,3,305,288,43],"tags":[1255,6466,4642],"class_list":["post-62537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-anchors-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-hallicrafters","tag-president-harry-s-truman","tag-sx-28"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ggF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19102,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/hamvention-find-rare-hallicrafters-sx-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":62537,"position":0},"title":"Hamvention Find: Rare Hallicrafters SX-11","author":"Thomas","date":"May 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, at the Dayton Hamvention Flea Market, a Hallicrafters SX-11 caught my eye. 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