Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS was in the stands and summoned out of the stadium, where he weas officially notified by the government of the attack. No pocket cell phones back then.
This was the last Regular Season NFL game (Dec. 7,1941) Philadelphia at Washington. Redskin QB Sam Baugh was the last survivor of that game and I undderstand JFK was attending that game when the annoucement was made.
And, as Baugh many years later said, the announement that all military and related government personel report immedately at half time meant that
there were less than 300 people in the stands at the end of the game
The famous CBS Radio bulletin with John Charles Daly interrupted a classical music program, not a football game. Daly was the newsreader for CBS's World Today newscast on Sundays and was preparing his newscast when the bulletin flashed on the wire services.
I wonder if this is a re-creation, or if it's just a coincidence that the two players mentioned (Tuffy Leemans and Bruiser Kinard) were among the most-famous of their era. I'm guessing it was fairly uncommon at the time for someone to just happen to be recording a radio broadcast at a given time. Also, re-creation of sports broadcasts was fairly common then. I'm thinking this was a later re-creation and the person behind it just chose the first 2 players from those teams he thought of.
@altfactor Also, WOR was the longtime flagship station of the Mutual network.
This bulletin was not broadcast over MBS.
WOR was once a CBS affiliate, but only for the network's first year or so (1927-28) on the air. The affiliation ended when CBS bought another New York station to serve as it's flagship.
This was actually a local bulletin from station WOR New York, which broke into their broadcast of a New York Giants' football game.
It appeared to have been broadcast around 2:25 P.M. EST, which would have made it the first known news flash on the attack broadcast by a mainland radio station.
Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS was in the stands and summoned out of the stadium, where he weas officially notified by the government of the attack. No pocket cell phones back then.
Boelcke1919 2 months ago
this was the New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
theawesometman21 2 months ago
Wow.
Halfstar3 3 months ago
This was the last Regular Season NFL game (Dec. 7,1941) Philadelphia at Washington. Redskin QB Sam Baugh was the last survivor of that game and I undderstand JFK was attending that game when the annoucement was made.
And, as Baugh many years later said, the announement that all military and related government personel report immedately at half time meant that
there were less than 300 people in the stands at the end of the game
Mr76Yearsago 4 months ago
The famous CBS Radio bulletin with John Charles Daly interrupted a classical music program, not a football game. Daly was the newsreader for CBS's World Today newscast on Sundays and was preparing his newscast when the bulletin flashed on the wire services.
observer9670 4 months ago
I wonder if this is a re-creation, or if it's just a coincidence that the two players mentioned (Tuffy Leemans and Bruiser Kinard) were among the most-famous of their era. I'm guessing it was fairly uncommon at the time for someone to just happen to be recording a radio broadcast at a given time. Also, re-creation of sports broadcasts was fairly common then. I'm thinking this was a later re-creation and the person behind it just chose the first 2 players from those teams he thought of.
m1049 4 months ago
@altfactor Also, WOR was the longtime flagship station of the Mutual network.
This bulletin was not broadcast over MBS.
WOR was once a CBS affiliate, but only for the network's first year or so (1927-28) on the air. The affiliation ended when CBS bought another New York station to serve as it's flagship.
altfactor 11 months ago
is this an aircheck or someone elses home recording
MichaelHansenFUN 1 year ago
This was actually a local bulletin from station WOR New York, which broke into their broadcast of a New York Giants' football game.
It appeared to have been broadcast around 2:25 P.M. EST, which would have made it the first known news flash on the attack broadcast by a mainland radio station.
altfactor 1 year ago