"Day in Infamy" - Changes to First Draft of Speech
President Roosevelt's first choice of words, in his famous December 8th speech, was not "day in infamy." This facsimile, of his marked-up draft, reveals the original sentence began: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world history ... Click on the image for a better view. CreditsU.S. National Archives.
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic