The two articles that are excerpted can be found at the PDF link on pages 9 and 16.
News of the attack at 1:25pm Washington time was sent by Navy radio to the Navy Department and word was passed to the White House and President Roosevelt.
White House Press Secretary Steve Early held a conference call with news services at 2:23 pm and the word was quickly sent out in bulletins printed on paper via 66 word per minute typing machines used by the news services and installed at media using their services.
The audio files of 1941 radio news from archive.org include many of the radio broadcasts described in the linked article.
I plan to post a link for them in this thread.
Link to audio files with Pearl Harbor Day items 90-157 on the list.......
https://archive.org/details/1941RadioNews
On this subject, here is a link to the World War II plus 70 years thread (has it been five years?) for radio coverage of the attack:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2817271/posts
My Dads one of these guys,wont say which it will blow my cover.
Many interesting articles and docs from that day here in the ole desk:
A few short years ago, at our old family farmstead in Grey County, Ontario, I found a letter that my grandfather wrote to his mother (my great-grandmother) and it was dated December 7, 1941. No mention of the attack, and I wonder what time of the day he wrote it (he was living in Oakville at the time with Grandma and my Dad’s two older sisters as very small children and my Dad was not born until about seven years later)? Possibly during the middle of the day and I guess news of what was unfolding local Hawaiian time might not have reached Eastern Canada just yet. I know a little off topic, but I think often of that letter whenever I think of Pearl Harbor.
Later
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EXACTLY how many televisions were in households in Dec 1941.