# President Buys First Bond, 1941/05/01

President Launches Sales Campaign For Nat'l Defense Bonds - "Washington, DC: President Roosevelt purchases the first 'defense' bond from Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, and issues a dramatic appeal to all Americans to back their country's national defense savings drive 100 per cent." FDR speaks on defense bonds and defense saving stamps. (partial newsreel)

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1941
- Genres: History, News
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/1941-05-01_President_Buys_First_Bond)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- US copyright record: Its uploader marked it public domain; the US Copyright Office's records show its copyright renewed on 20 June 1968 by Universal Pictures, division of Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH) ([Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, vol. 22 (1968), p. 49, renewal R437512](https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19683221213libr/page/n66))
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, but the US Copyright Office's records show its copyright renewed (cited beside its licence), so it is protected in the United States, and elsewhere for the place's own term.