The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
Creator: Manitowoc Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wis.)
Title: Herald-Times Pearl Harbor Extra
Date: December 7, 1941
Format: Image
Institution: Digital Public Library of America
Link:http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SSRecIDSearch?repl1=WI&repl2=WI.HomeFront.300159.bib
The Manitowoc Herald-Times was one out of many newspapers that published the news about the attack at Pearl Harbor. The Herald-Times published an extra edition, that were rarely seen, with the headline “Japs War on U.S.” The Herald-Times normally doesn’t publish newspapers on Sundays. Four full-size newspaper pages to print out the extra edition in order to use the format as shown in the image. When the Herald-Times got notifications about the attack at Pearl Harbor early Sunday afternoon, the paper set up a special wire to receive any news updates from the Associated Press. Like most newspaper companies Herald-Times scrambled quickly to publish the story. By late afternoon, the extra edition was on the streets. Underneath the headlines, their were three phrases “Bomb Airport, Set fire To Ship, 350 Die” that gave a quick insight of the attack at Pearl Harbor. There were two pages that carried war news that went into detail about the horrific attack and the last two were previous comics and ads to fill the remaining space. Not only was the Manitowoc Herald-Times the only one who displayed the story about the attack, the Manitowoc radio station WOMT, also received information about Pearl Harbor. The station broadcasted the announcement to the Mikadow movie theater (Manitowoc Herald-Times). If the attack at Pearl Harbor happened in today society, not only would the news be displayed in newspapers and in the radio, but the information would have come in a lot quicker than taking almost a full day and it would be all over social media. Newspapers and radio and public venues like the movie theaters were the only media to here the about the attack.
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