I guess the declartion of war came on a Monday, since the attack was on Sunday morning. That was about two in the afternoon, Washington time. In those days, with slow communication, the President would hardly have had time to prepare that speech before Monday.
Howard

> My grandparents occasionally talked about Kennedy's assassination. I believe that they were grocery shopping when somebody told them about it.
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> My grandma was in 8th grade when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Somebody brought a radio into the classroom, and they listened to Roosevelt reading the declaration of war.
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> For those of you who are conspiracy-minded, I highly recommend James Fetzer's "The Great Zapruder Film Hoax." Parts of it can be a little tough to get through, but it's well worth it. It examines various technical aspects of the Zapruder film and the general state of film-making at that time, and concludes for technical reasons (and other reasons, such as witness accounts) that the public version of the Zapruder film is a total fabrication.