How newspapers reacted to Pearl Harbor on their front pages in 1941

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was front-page news the next day.

San Francisco Chronicle 12/08/1941 Courtesy of Newseum collection/Courtesy of Newseum collection

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The word from Honolulu, 70 years ago: “This is no joke. It is a real war.”

Around 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, Army Private Francis Stueve sat for breakfast. Then, gunfire.

Did the U.S. know an attack was coming?