On this day in 1941, Adm. Harold R. Stark, U.S. chief of naval operations, tells Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, that both President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull think a Japanese surprise attack is a distinct possibility. “We are likely to be attacked next Monday, for the Japs are notorious for attacking without warning,” Roosevelt had informed his Cabinet. “We must all prepare for trouble, possibly soon,” he telegraphed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Despite the fact that so many in positions of command anticipated a Japanese attack, especially given the failure of diplomacy (Japan refused U.S. demands to withdraw from both the Axis pact and occupied territories in China and Indochina), no one expected Hawaii as the target. Find out more about Pearl Harbor at the library and on hoopla.
Charlaine Harris Schulz, New York Times bestselling mystery and horror author, and creator of the best-selling Sookie Stackhouse series, about a telepathic barmaid and a group of vampires and other supernatural creatures in small-town Louisiana, was born in Tunica, Mississippi on November 25, 1951. Though her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, . Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO later adapted for its dramatic series entitled True Blood. Find Sookie at the library, on hoopla and in OverDrive
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I would like to know the source of the information–“On this day in 1941, Adm. Harold R. Stark, U.S. chief of naval operations, tells Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, that both President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull think a Japanese surprise attack is a distinct possibility.” I have read most of the Congressional Hearing concerning the attack and have not discovered this anywhere. The only other place it has been reported is in the Today in History blog. Do you have a specific source, or is this just round robin reporting without source?
This was posted some time before I took charge of the blog, so I don’t know what their sourcing was. Based on what I can find via Google, it looks like the information was taken from the History Channel here: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-war-warning-is-sent-to-commanders-in-the-pacific though that may be what you were referring to.