‘Day of Infamy’ Dec. 4; ‘Five Events that Changed the Course of WWII’ not yet set
Frank Galbraith, local historian and a former Knox County Schools teacher, returns with his “A Day of Infamy” presentation. His annual look at the national and international events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, happens this year beginning at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Farragut Community Center, 239 Jamestowne Blvd No. 201.
“I’ve been presenting this program every year for about 20 years,” Galbraith said. “It is a slide program that shows the history of our country from the end of WWI through all the developments of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. It shows how Hitler and the Nazis came into power, how the militant Japanese forces spread in the Far East and how Mussolini and his fascists took over Italy. Then it shows just how the Japanese came to destroy the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and our reactions to this ambush attack.”
Look for a new Galbraith presentation, which he calls “Five Events that Changed the Course of World War II,” at a time, day and location still to be determined.
