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 ...
As the aircraft carrier USS Princeton glided to a berth in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, crew members stood on the flight desk manning the rails, a naval tradition. My position was on the side of the ...
Perhaps one of the best know phrases in the history of American politics is “a date which will live in infamy.” In what is now considered one of the most powerful speeches ever delivered, President ...
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, ...
Miss Leonidas Jones, who taught U.S. History to some of Enterprise High School’s 1968 graduating class when we were Enterprise Junior High School eighth-grade students, 1963-64, would be pleased her ...
SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) – Dante J. Orsini Sr., a former Marine who guarded President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his “Day of Infamy” speech after the Pearl Harbor attack, has died at age 93. The ...
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 ...
Side 1. Kennedy's complete inaugural address (Jan. 20, 1961) --Side 2. Excerpts from F.D.R. speeches. 1st inaugural address (March 4, 1933) ; Fireside chat (April 29, 1935) ; 2nd acceptance (June 27, ...
Side 1. Kennedy's complete inaugural address (Jan. 20, 1961) -- Side 2. Excerpts from F.D.R. speeches. 1st inaugural address (March 4, 1933) ; Fireside chat (April 29, 1935) ; 2nd acceptance (June 27, ...
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