Today’s episode features President Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chat of December 9, 1941, discussing the attack on Pearl Harbor and preparing the American people for war.

Today’s episode contains two segments. The first is President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to a joint session of Congress—the famous Day of Infamy speech from December 8, 1941. That is followed by the NBC news broadcast of that evening.

This episode features two segments. The first features H.V Kaltenborn as he reports on and analyzes the news of the attack for NBC.

Our second segment is an address by New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia over WNYC to the residents of the nation’s largest city.

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. In recognition of this date, we are sharing multiple broadcasts from the date of the attack

Today, we have the CBS News broadcast of December 6, 1941.

Today we have Psalm for a Dark Year, as presented in November 1941 by the Columbia Workshop. Written by Norman Corwin, it reflects on the year, sharing thoughts from average Americans.

This week we have Thanksgiving Day Dinner, the Nov. 23, 1941, episode of the Jack Benny Program.

A bonus second episode this week: the November 20, 1941, episode of the March of Time, a production of Time magazine and CBS that provided reenactments of the headline events of the day.

This week we have Overground Railroad, an episode of Cloak & Dagger, which tells the tale of OSS agents helping downed airmen escape from behind enemy lines. Cloak and Dagger was a short-lived radio series that told stories taken from the files of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War 2 forerunner of the CIA. It aired over NBC from May to October 1950. This episode originally aired on September 8, 1950.

This week we have the NBC news update of November 10, 1941, offering updates on the war from Europe, Asia and the home front.