A photo from 1941 in Worthington Ohio...a radio used to listen to FDR Worthington Ohio Pearl Harbor Day. I believe the boy on the right is Don O'Brien who grew up in the Worthington area. Of this photo he says:
"The radio with which I heard about the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941."
The photo is from Don O'Brien's Flickr photo stream (Mr. O'Brien is Dok1 on Flickr) and is captioned:
FDR's Speech for a Declaration of War December 8, 1941
O'Brien has a link on this photo on his Flickr photostream to Roosevelt's speech both a transcript and an audio tape.
O'Briens first comment on the photo also looks like he scanned a diary page. His?
It says:
"Astonishing things happened today. The United States declared war on Japan" the diary snippet goes on.
Another excerpt from the diary on the Dok1 Flickr photostream from December 7, 1941 leads me to believe the first comment on the photo of the boys on December 8, 1941 is from Don O'Brien's father's diary : December 7, 1941
Worthington Ohio Pearl Harbor Day
Don O'Brien was a senior in high school in 1941, at Worthington High* and he was into photography big time. O'Brien's photostream has some amazing photos from Worthington from that era to view. O'Brien's family lived on W. Wilson Bridge Rd. which was "out in the country" at the time.
*I get confused... Was the Packard Building (Now the McConnell Arts Center) the Worthington High School in 1941? Or was what is now Kilbourne Middle School s Worthington High in 1941?
O'Brien's Flickr photostream entries about Worthington Ohio Pearl Harbor Day and the next day when World War II was declared are just some of O'Brien's photos that show you a slice of life in Worthington back in the 1930's and 1940's. Visit O'Brien's Flickr photostream for more.
There are great photos of the streets of Worthington, schools, people, and the surrounding area from the 1930's and 1940's in Dok1's Flickr photostream.
Worthington in the 1930's and 1940's:
Glee - In the Packard Building which was the Worthington High School in 1937 Worthington High Glee Club
The Kroger in Worthington - The Kroger grocery store was on High St. This photo is used with permission. Many but not all of O'Brien's photos are licensed with a creative commons license.
October 24, 1938 A local event at a farm in "the country" outside Worthington. The farm was near the intersection of E. Wilson Bridge Road and Worthington Galena Road.
Worthington Football Friday Night 1941
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I was on a site today getting a few facts straight on Pearl Harbor that I didn't want to mess up. I read a Memory Report from Roosevelts secretary, how she found out, what she did. She took short hand for him as he dictated the speech. It was really fascinating to read.
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