LIVE THREAD: THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR (December 7-8 1941)

Various networks, via archive.org ^ | December 7-8 1941 | Compiled by CougarGA7

[Homer_J_Simpson]

As a special treat today for Realtime fans and followers, we have Sammy Kaye’s Sunday Serenade. This is just a listen into the typical Sunday afternoon here in New York City as everyone enjoys their day of rest. [“Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye” my foot. He may sway, but he sure don’t swing. – Homer]

NBCR – Sammy Kaye Sunday Serenade

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Cougar has a crucial class this morning so I will start the show today. I am posting a few minutes before “Sunday Serenade” begins [2 PM EST, 1 PM CST, 12PM MST, 11 AM PST, and for you lucky listeners in Hawaii it must be 8 AM.] to give listeners a time to get set up. I recommend that you open a new browser tab or whatever your configuration calls for so you can listen to these broadcasts and still visit the excellent news thread I pinged you to this morning. But please return to this one frequently because each new broadcast will appear as a new reply. I am pinging the list for this one and will do so periodically throughout the day, but not for every reply.

[Ingtar]

The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?! It’s not over yet!

[HOYA97]

How long did the attack last? Both waves.

Thanks!

[mosesdapoet]

Believe it or not I was 10 years old and our Silvertone radio was set atop the Coldspot fridge and was tuned to
“Songs of The Islands” the very program the japs were tuned to when that happened.

[Moose4]

About two hours total for both waves. It started around 7:55 am Hawaiian time and the second wave left just before 10 am.

}:-)4

[HOYA97]

So when the first reports were coming across the wire/radio we were still under attack, correct?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

NEWS FLASH!!! THE JAPANESE HAVE JUST ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR!!!

NBCR – FLASH!! The Japanese Have Attacked Pearl Harbor

CBS – FLASH!! We interrupt the football telecast to announce an attack on Hawaii

MBS – FLASH!! We interrupt the football telecast to announce an attack on Hawaii

[Homer_J_Simpson]

UPDATE: CBS and NBC continue to react reports of some sort of attack by the Japanese in Hawaii

CBS – World Today’s John Daly Reads Bulletin

NBCR – University of Chicago Roundtable Discusses Canada at War with Updates on current events

[Homer_J_Simpson]

ALERT! NBC’s Blue Network announces attack on Hawaii

NBCB – Bulletin On Pearl Harbor Attack

[Homer_J_Simpson]

ALERT! John Daly Reports more on attack on Pearl Harbor

CBS – John Daly Reports Pearl Harbor Attack

[Homer_J_Simpson]

UPDATE! Albert Warner Speculates on FDR’s Next Steps

CBS – Albert Warner Speculates On FDRs Next Steps

[Homer_J_Simpson]

UPDATE! CBS’s Bob Trout announces first reactions in Britain

CBS – Bob Trout on British Reaction

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Daly

John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly[1] (generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991[2]) was an American journalist, game show host and radio personality, probably best known for hosting the panel show What’s My Line?. He was the vice president of ABC during the 1950s. On December 22, 1960, he became the son-in-law of Chief Justice Earl Warren, upon marrying Virginia Warren.[3]

Famous broadcasts

As a reporter for CBS, Daly was the voice of two historic announcements. He was the first national radio correspondent to deliver the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (recordings of this announcement reveal a minor error, either a mistyping of the copy in haste or a misreading by Daly as he pronounced Oahu as if it were spelled “O-ha-u”), and he was the first to relay the wire service report of the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, interrupting “Wilderness Road” to deliver the news. Both narrations have been used on historical record albums and radio and TV retrospectives.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

UPDATE! Ford Wilkins reporting from Manila is cutoff by censors

Ford Wilkins Reporting from Manila

[Homer_J_Simpson]

UPDATE! BURMA IS BEING BOMBED!

NBC – Burma Bombed

[Homer_J_Simpson]

UPDATE! More Analysis of Attack on Pearl Harbor

CBS – Analysis of Attack on Pearl Harbor and Manilla

[Larry Lucido]

Ron Paul: We asked for it.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Now back to regular programing: NY Philharmonic with updates as they come in

CBS – NY Philharmonic Concert Interrupted

[PzLdr]

I remember him for the watch commercials he did. “Takes a licking, and keeps on ticking” [Timex?]