On this day in 1941, the Infamy Speech was delivered at 12:30pm by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one day after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Within an hour of the speech being given, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought the U.S. into World War II.
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