Quincy Howe WQXR radio broadcaster the Pearl Harbor attack 1941

“The news of [the Pearl Harbor] attack broke out at a time on Sunday afternoon when a comparatively few newspapers in the U.S.A. were being published (there were no evening papers on sunday). The result was that the nation learned of the war and its immediate developments almost entirely by radio. The National Broadcasting system held the bulletin for a few minutes, and at 2:30 gave the news simultaneously to its Red and Blue networks, and subsequently to the whole world over its international short-wave system.”