What happens
This CBS news summary, dated December 9, 1941, reports on the opening days of the war with Japan. Correspondents give updates from Washington, San Francisco and London. Washington reports cover a planned Mexican troop transit, the President's classification of German, Italian and Japanese residents as enemy aliens, and congressional debate over the Navy's conduct after the Hawaii attacks. San Francisco reports describe the city's first air raid alarm, civil defense instructions, and arrests of enemy aliens in California. A Batavia correspondent describes conditions there, and a report from London covers the Pacific fighting. The broadcast ends with an East Coast air raid scare that was later described as a test.
Wartime United States and the Pacific, broadcast from New York with correspondents in Washington, San Francisco, Batavia and London
Characters: John Daly, Albert Warner, Bob Trout, William Winter, President Roosevelt, Lieutenant General DeWitt, Captain Harry Turner, Vice President Wallace
Listen for: The San Francisco report on the first air raid alarm, and the account of the East Coast air raid scare that followed
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.