Sound Bite 1940 – 1941

  1940 – Democratic National Convention, held in Chicago Stadium nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term.  00:25

  1941 – FDR address the Joint Session of the US Congress one day after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese declaration of war on the United States and British Empire.  07:35

  1941 – Charles Lindbergh, “No Intervention.”  04:01

  1941 – BBC reporting Japan attacked the US naval base at Peral Harbor, Hawaii, 2,400 Americans were killed in two hours drawing the US into World War II.  00:52

  1941 – CBS Pearl Harbor attack announcement.  00:23

  1941 – NBC Pearl Harbor attack announcement.  00:44

 

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