50th anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbour

Title

50th anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbour

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

6 Dec 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:03:21

Description

Marc de Leuw reports on the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese air attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbour in 1941. Includes archive recordings of US Presidents Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry S Truman following the attack and after dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima.

Contributors

Harry S. Truman; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Marc De Leuw

Keywords

USA; Second World War (1939-1945); Aerial bombardment; Japan; Nuclear bomb; Hiroshima; Wars (events); Anniversaries; Attack on Pearl Harbour (1941)

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