LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Pearl Harbour archive clips on 40th anniversary

Genre

Speech; Special

TX Date

Dec 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:03:48

Description

Series of archive recordings from UPI about the Japanese attack on the American airbase at Pearl Harbour in 07-08/12/41. The clips were used on the fortieth anniversary of the bombing. Include President Franklin D. Roosevelt announcing the attack; Roosevelt asking Congress for a Declaration of War; President Harry Truman announcing the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; General Douglas MacArthur at the signing of the Japanese surrender.

Contributors

Douglas MacArthur; Harry S. Truman; Franklin D. Roosevelt; UPI

Keywords

USA; Presidents; Second World War (1939-1945); Japan; Nuclear bomb; Hiroshima; Wars (events); Hawaii; Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941); Archive recordings

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