Seventy five years ago, a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of Congress on December 8, 1941, which lasted just over seven minutes and was heard over the radio to over eighty one percent of the American homes in which President Roosevelt proclaimed December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy”. Some might have listened on a radio like this RCA Radiola Super-Heterodyne when Roosevelt told of the attack and asked Congress to declare war with Japanese empire.

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