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Article: Why America slept. (the attack on Pearl Harbor) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
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- December 16, 1991
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What did FDR and Churchill know, and when did they know it? Can the revisionists make their case that Pearl Harbor could have been prevented?
'WE INTERRUPT this program to bring you a special news bulletin. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by air, President Roosevelt has just announced." John Daly's hurried radio announcement on that quiet Sunday afternoon can still send a chill through the heart. Ever since, the nation has asked, How could we have been caught so naked? Who was responsible? In particular, what did FDR know?
Several books published after the war, by Charles A. Beard, William Henry Chamberlin, and others, argued that ...