"War was in the air"
Miriam Kressyn was on stage when President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war, marking the United States' entry into the Second World War. Interview by Neil W. Levin, Robert Abelson, and Zalmen Mlotek. Milken Archive oral history excerpt.
Date: January 29, 1995
Credit: Milken Family Foundation
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