The fire side chat report

The message of this speech was that he wants to inform the people of America the every day working of banks, he informed the people about what the banking situation was and why it stood as it did. The purpose of this speech was to justify Roosevelt's own actions it was also to instil confidence back to the people. This in turn would help to restore the fast deterioration of the current situation. The purpose …

…is a firsthand account and a recording of the actual event. It is relevant as evidence as it gives us a feeling of what Roosevelt was telling the people at the time. However the information is also unreliable for the exact same reason as Roosevelt may have been only telling the people the information that was to aid and bring comfort, in this way he was only telling the people what they wanted to hear.