Extra! Extra! How Did Journalists Cover Pearl Harbor The Day After?

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Today they may have Tweeted: "Thousands dead in Hawaii after JP attack. Worst ever on homeland. FDR: US in it to win it."
But on Dec. 8, 1941, one day after the bloodiest attack on U.S. soil by a foreign country, news organizations attempted to make sense of it all. Far removed from the future 24/7 news cycle, the correspondents of the era had only bits and pieces of information from the Japanese assault on Hawaii and did their best to put it into a broader context. Looking back on the articles on the 69th anniversary, the stories are often unclear about exactly how the attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base happened. What was evident, however, was that it was destined to bring about another world war. Its conclusion remained unknown.





Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/07...ver-pearl-harbor-the-day-after/#ixzz17YWIz4Wh​
 
Winston Churchill (in his memoirs referring to America coming into the war after Pearl Harbor)-

"To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy.
Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death.
So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed.
As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder."

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I think they would have told them but maybe far too late to do anything about it ?
 
Good question, Bootie ...
I think that UK had warned of such an event .-
The mere fact warn of the attack had left the U.S. in debt to the english ...

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Newspapers go on sale on December 7th, 1941 in Times Square in New York City, announcing that Japan has attacked U.S. bases in the Pacific.
 
Just missing an excuse to go to war ... And it was Pearl Harbor .-

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White House reporters dash for the telephones on December 7th, 1941, after they had been told by presidential press secretary Stephen T. Early that Japanese submarines and planes had just bombed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 
A month before Pearl, Churchill seemed to predict it during a conversation with the actor David Niven.
This extract is from Niven's autobiography 'The Moon's a Balloon', pages 227/228-

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