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Quotation from Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy") by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.”
Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraphs 6-8 (National Archives text)
Part of the litany of attacks across the Pacific, each given its own paragraph.
Citation: "Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraphs 6-8 (National Archives text). (id pearl-harbor-address-q2)
Portrait: Fdr delivers speech, United States Government., Public domain.
