Volume 18 , Issue 44

1941 - A Date That Will Live In Infamy Speech

Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his Pearl Harbor Address - "a date that will live in infamy" 8 December 1941, after Pearl Harbor bombing by Japan.



Sunday, 7 December 1941 was the day that many people and news media were the quietest, and caught off guard. Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, sinking, destroying ships, airplanes stationed at Pearl Harbor.

This is the address President Roosevelt gave declaring war on Japan.

The Presidential Address to Congress on December 8, 1941. Known as the Infamy Speech, it was delivered at 12:30 p.m. that day to a Joint Session of Congress by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii. Roosevelt famously describes the previous day as "a date which will live in infamy." Within an hour of the speech, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought the U.S. into World War II. The address is regarded as one of the most famous American political speeches of the 20th century.
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