MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Dec. 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan, officially entering World War II.
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 ...
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 ...
How President Roosevelt edited his Pearl Harbor 'a date which will live in infamy' speech President Roosevelt made handwritten modifications to the dictated and typewritten first draft of his ...
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 ...