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Although the U.S. National Archives maintain the official audio recordings, for this paper we accessed the audio files in .mp3 format via the Oyez Project at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, which is a public repository that aims “to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.” To get additional information on the content of the files and to verify the identity of each speaker, we also obtained the transcript for each argument which can be found in the Oyez Project player.
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