Volume 18 , Issue 44

1941 Pearl Harbor Bombing Catches Radio Networks Napping

In the "Long Beach Independent," in Long Beach, California, dated 9 December 1941, Tuesday, page 17, reported "Pearl Harbor Bombing Catches Even Radio Networks Napping," written by Allen Dundee.

Found on Newspapers.com

It was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and other United States defense outposts Sunday came at an hour when newspapers and news services were at their quietest. So it wasn't surprising that the first newspaper extras on the war were quite dull, considering that all the news in them already had been given in special bulletins over the radio.

It even caught radio news coverage resources napping, and radio sets had to augment whatever news they received with bulletins supplied by reporters from the Hawaiian Advertiser, and papers in Manila.

One radio news commentator broadcasting from Manila said that in the excitement his earlier newscast tot he Untied States was carried by another network, and not by the one where he was employed.
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