The sound people remember from that morning isn't the speech. It's the shouting.
On 31 August 1957, inside a stadium built in Kuala Lumpur for the occasion, Tunku Abdul Rahman read

At half past nine on the morning of 31 August 1957, a newly built stadium in Kuala Lumpur went quiet. Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj stepped to the microphone and read out the pro