December 7, 2004

Dec. 7, 1941 - in memory

On Dec. 8, 1941, this was the front page of the New York Times. Read the article, too.

As we all know, Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7th, not 8th. Here is a tidbit about the newspaper coverage on the actual day of the attack. I know it, because it involves my home state, Rhode Island.

Posted by sheila
Comments

what a sad, sad day.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at December 7, 2004 10:19 AM

The Times article palpitates with the sense of shock, emergency, and loss. It's quite painful to read, indeed.

Posted by: red at December 7, 2004 10:20 AM

My step-dad was living in Hawaii on the 12/7/41. He was just a little boy of course but remembers running into the fields to avoid the bombing and later finding shrapnel from the bombs.

Posted by: j swift at December 7, 2004 5:48 PM

It is always bracing to read the reportage from when pivotal events actually happened. That visceral sense is truer than inevitable decades of revision.

Posted by: popskull at December 7, 2004 8:57 PM