Infamy Speech
Sign in to saveAlso known as a date which will live in infamy, Pearl Harbor speech, Day of Infamy, Day of Infamy speech, Pearl Harbor address
December 8, 1941 speech by FDR on the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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- Instance of
- oration
- Image
- Fdr delivers speech.jpg
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- speaker
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- point in time
- 1941-12-08
- Commons category
- Infamy Speech
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- first line
- Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- last line
- I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
- copyright status
- public domain
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