Day of Infamy speech

Franklin D. Roosevelt asked a joint session of Congress to declare war on Japan in the early afternoon of December 8, 1941, and the whole address runs about six and a half minutes. On film you see what radio listeners could only imagine: a president delivering a short, flat list of Japanese attacks rather than soaring rhetoric, and the chamber's response. His early draft called it a date which will live "in world history"; he changed it to "in infamy." Congress declared war 33 minutes after he finished, which makes this the rare speech whose consequence arrived the same afternoon.