‘WAR!’ How a Stunned Media Broke the Pearl Harbor News

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By: Michael E. Ruane | Washington Post

For a time on Dec. 7, 1941, millions of Americans were getting their news about the attack on Pearl Harbor through a person named Ruthjane Rumelt.

She was an aide to White House Press secretary Stephen T. Early, and she relayed pieces of the story as it came in to reporters in the White House press room.































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