80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

[mark blazejewski]

At precisely 1:23 p.m. today, it was 80 years since the first Japanese bombs fell on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor.

Also attacked was the Army Air Force Base at Hickam Field.



From my collection, this is how the Buffalo Courier-Express first reported the attack in an "Extra," which preceded its scheduled editions:

image (90).jpg

Below is a link to the first CBS News report of the attack. That first report coincided with the start of the pre-scheduled broadcast of The World Today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SU2ESMZDRA&t=2460s

If interested, here is the link to President Roosevelt's itinerary for December 7, 1941:

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/day...F0n9MUQPSGyxIc

Also of possible interest, here are the notes of the White House Usher, who documented the participants, the times, and locations, for the various meetings which the President held on that fateful night:

image (91).jpg

image (92).jpg