After the day of infamy : man on the street interviews following the attack on Pearl Harbor

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" ... presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from over two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United S...

" ... presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from over two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor), Alan Lomax, then "assistant in charge" of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), sent a telegram to fieldworkers in ten different localities around the United States, asking them to collect the reactions of ordinary Americans to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by the United States. These recordings feature a diversity of opinion concerning the war, and other social and political issues of the day, such as racial prejudice and labor disputes. The result is a portrait of everyday life in America as the United States entered World War II."

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