Pearl Harbour archive clips on 40th anniversary
- 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
The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.