| Opera singers from
Cincinnati are given on-the-air auditions
for the Metropolitan Opera of New York. The
program was interrupted midway through for
news from Upton Close in San Francisco, Ford
Wilkins in Manila (a CBS short-wave broadcast),
and H.V. Kaltenborn in New York. |
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00:00 Program introduction and opera
auditions
14:43 Program interruption: NBC newsroom:
Japanese flash: Imperial headquarters announces
state of war with United States. Upton Close
in San Francisco: The Imperial headquarters
took things right out of the hands of the
civilian government. The government might
not have even known anything about the attack.
Speeches by Japanese military leaders will
begin about 7:30 EST before a fanatical military
association of "gangsters."
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| 16:53: NBC tries
to contact Manila but can't get the right
contact, back to San Francisco. Close describes
the damage done at Pearl Harbor.Oklahoma
was hit. Two ships, possibly including the
West Virginia, was sunk. Speculation
that the attack came from the south. Flash--Japan
has also declared war with Great Britain. |
20:00: From Manila: Ford Wilkins confirms
that Manila has not been attacked. Apparently
NBC picked up on the CBS broadcast. There
is a notable gap of dead air time between
the end of Wilkins's report and the the beginning
of H.V. Kaltenborn's.
23:04: H.V. Kaltenborn from New York:
Word from Shanghai that a British gunboat
in the harbor has been sunk. It's possible
they were aiming at the U.S. Gunboat Wake.
Kaltenborn confirms that the report of the
attack on Manila was a mistake, but there
was much damage at Pearl Harbor. It is evident
now that the entire world is at war. The one
question is what Russia will do in reference
to Japan. |
