Pearl Harbor Attack announcement - Radio Announcement December 7 1941

Pearl Harbor Attack announcement - Radio Announcement December 7 1941

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• Pearl
• Harbor
• Attack
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• Radio
• Announcement
• December
• 1941
• President
• Franklin
• D.
• Roosevelt
• USA
• Japan
• World
• War
• Two
• Event

[xstephaniexlovex]

God Bless those who lost their lives to protect our country.

Rest in Peace.

[mysticx0]

amazing.

i can easily imagine the whole range of emotions felt by someone hearing this back then.

i have always wondered though, how many people were actually listening to the radio at this time of day? how long did it take for most of the country to have heard the news of what happened? around noon? maybe later? or earlier even?

[bradgandy02]

I would recognize that voice anywhere. It's the always classy and unforgettable host of What's My Line, John Charles Daly.

[psalmsofplanets0722]

Heh people forget about ussr, they got fucked up but everyone cares about the soldiers that we lost. they lost millions of people and had a massive number of civilian casualties compared to the us or even france or britain

[observer9670]

John Daly was the newsreader for CBS Radio's Sunday late afternoon "The World Today" broadcast. He was only 27 at the time, although he sounded older. He was a Naval Reserve officer and served a year before FDR ordered all military personnel who worked for a news agency covering the war be released to rejoin their press outlet. Daly became a CBS war correspondent in Italy and the Pacific before returning to New York in 1945, just in time to announce FDR's death.

[pine829]

The sad thing about this is the FDR knew this attack was coming since he had already created the conditions for it. The poor folks at Pearl were nothing more than bait...cheese set in a mousetrap by their President.

His "Day of Infamy" speech is the worst sort of lie. He knew. He wanted war.

It will always be to the shame of this nation that FDR is not properly reviled for his treachery in this.

300,000 American died needlessly in the second world war. It was not our fight.

[schizoidboy]

To think this exactly happened seventy years ago. Today we would not be as united as they were back in those days. Soon after 9-11 the conspiracy theories shot out like crazy. Sometimes you got to wonder about each generation. Bless those who took it upon themselves to resolve the situation.

[TheBearcub410]

i can't believe this happened 70 years ago today , my uncle told me he was driving over the Washington bridge that connects east providence to providence Rhode Island when he heard Roosevelt speech declaring war against the Japanese on the radio , i think he was driving his 1936 Plymouth , god bless them all

[cyberspore00]

"The President would ask Congress for an Act of War." Why can't modern Presidents follow the Constitution in this regard?

[chitown1211]

Listening to this is almost haunting for me. It's hard to imagine how people must have felt back then considering that this was the first attack near American soil.

RIP those who died on Pearl Harbor, 70 years ago today. 

[buffalutheran]

The announcer here is John Charles Daly, who later became the host of the first ABC newscast, and later the host of the long running game show "What's My Line."

[lamboboy2106]

where'd you find this?