How Television Reported the Pearl Harbor Attack
4 min readDec 7, 2020
On December 7, 1941, the “date which will live in infamy,” Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, and several other Pacific islands, a few minutes before 8:00 a.m. local time, 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. Recordings of radio’s breaking coverage can be found online today, eighty years later. But most people don’t realize that television had been around just long enough, even at that early date, to…
