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Torpedoes launched from bombers tore at the dreadnoughts in Pearl Harbor. Dive-bombers swooped down on the Army's Hickam and Wheeler Fields. Shortly after the attack began, radio warnings were broadcast. But people who heard them were skeptical until explosions wrenched the guts of Honolulu. All the way from Pacific Heights down to the center of town the planes soared, leaving a wake of destruction...
...networks were in action-and in a turmoil. The news was beyond the grasp of some listeners. WOR, cutting into its football broadcast for a half minute, a minute at a time, got furious telephone calls from people too excited about the game to become excited about anything else. In Denver, when a religious hour was canceled, one man called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill...
...Monday NBC broadcast two recordings of previous programs-the third and fourth time it has ever done so. One was President Roosevelt's speech before Congress. The other was an eyewitness account of Manila under Japanese bombers by the moonlight of early morning. And on Monday, too, since radio is a two-way affair, the Office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel Donovan) suggested to all U.S. short-wave stations that in reporting news to Europe they "make no attempt to gloss over the gravity of the first day's losses of the U.S. in the Pacific...
Fifteen prominent undergraduates sent out a call last night for all students to gather in Sanders Theatre at noon today to hear the broadcast of the President's address to Congress. The broadcast will be preceded by a short talk by a prominent member of the Faculty, and an important University official will chair the meeting...
Today the Congress of the United States will assemble to register its most important decision since 1917, a decision which events have rendered inevitable as a declaration of war against Japan. With a suddenness and an element of implausibility reminiscent of Orson Wells' Martin broadcast, radio announcers broke the news to the nation yesterday afternoon that Hawaii, as much a part of the country from a psychological point of view as Omaha or Kansas City, had been attacked without warning. In the minds of every listener there was no question but that a declaration of war would be almost immediate...