The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the "Day of Infamy" speech before Congress, winning a declaration of war that marked the U.S. entrance into World War II.

1941: President Franklin Roosevelt delivers his “Day of Infamy” speech. Let’s assume we don’t have to tell you what preceded this on Dec. 7. 1955: Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella wins his ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a joint address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The address ...

He was working for the U.S. Senate when Pearl Harbor was attacked and, as he told it, walked down the hall in the Capitol, witnessed FDR’s “Day of Infamy” speech and the next day showed up ...

The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by President Roosevelt on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the Japanese ...

After he delivered his famous "Day of Infamy" speech, the Senate unanimously supported the declaration. In the House, there was one dissenter, Montana’s Representative Jeanette Rankin ...

1941: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his famous “Day of Infamy” speech to a joint session of Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Local journalism is essential.

Those who remember the attack and the address — and those who were in the front lines of the nation’s response — are dwindling with each passing day. Yet when we read the speech or listen to the ...

the same day President Franklin Roosevelt delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress, famous for its opening line: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United ...