Date that will live in infamy

Franklin D Roosevelt's radio address to the country following the attack on Pearl Harbor is available through Annals of American History in GALILEO.

There are two ways to find the speech. A straight search for 'Pearl Harbor' brought the 1941 speech up first on the results list. Using the index for authors, click on R, select Franklin D Roosevelt, and scroll through the articles in date order till you get to 1941.

The audio of the speech may be downloaded. The full text may be printed. The speech is more than it's most famous phrase. Listen or read the entire speech to get a feeling for what our country was going through.

Have you listened  to any members of your family talk  about their memory of December 7, 1941? Consider taking this person to a Story Corps location and interviewing them about that "date that will live in infamy". Remembering is one thing, making sure the story is not forgotten is another!


-kss

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