With every passing year, Jim Hackworth’s mission to keep the memory of Pearl Harbor Day alive gets more difficult. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live ...

To see FDR’s original speech with editing changes click title or go to: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy for lessons on Pearl Harbor and primary documents. In response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor ...

Roosevelt spoke to a joint session of Congress, calling Dec. 7 “a day that will live in infamy.” In 1994, U.S. Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Memorial ...