It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study in ...
SEVENTY YEARS ago this Wednesday, a wave of Japanese war planes swooped over America’s chief Pacific Naval base at Pearl Harbor and dropped their armor-piercing bombs on “Battleship Row.” The attack ...
On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the Pottsville Evening Republican produced a special edition. There was no Sunday paper at the time, and the editors ran a text block on the mast head explaining their ...
Patrick Wilkins flanked his two sons as they stared up at the words, engraved in marble, spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Dec. 8, 1941. “A date which will live in infamy,” the Beaufort, ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt called this "a day that will live in infamy." And as we sat by the radio in Pierre, S.D., on Dec. 7, 1941, we shuddered. We were in great fear because brother Harley was with ...
User-Created Clip November 12, 2019 2007-09-14T21:33:16-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/179/20070914213404001_hd.jpgThe Supervisory Archivist at the FDR ...
HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Seventy-five years after he dictated what would become one of the most famous speeches ever delivered by an American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first draft of his "Day ...
The 83rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor will be commemorated Saturday aboard the Battleship USS Iowa, with H. Delano Roosevelt, grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sharing insights ...
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