![]() ![]() News media accounts often characterized the committee as politically divided, featuring headlines such as: “Angry Senators Debate on ‘Records’ of Pearl Harbor,” and “GOP Senators Say Democrats Block Pearl Harbor Probe.” After four long years of war, a weary nation longed for peace and reconciliation. The Pearl Harbor investigation never piqued the public interest like other notable Senate inquiries. Included some 14,000 pages of printed exhibits. The hearing transcripts filled more than 5,000 printed pages and The Senate Caucus Room from 44 people, including top level military commanders such as Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short, andįormer ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew and former secretary of state Cordell Senate, and chaired by Senator Barkley, to investigateįrom November of 1945 through May of 1946, the committee heard testimony in The Senate unanimously approved Barkley’s Concurrent “contradictions and inconsistencies” within the preceding reports. The creation of a joint investigatory committee to explore the Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was the first to callįor action, presenting a Senate resolution on September 6, 1945. Germany’s surrender on April 8, and theįormal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, created an opportunity forĬongress to act. On August 29,ġ945, President Harry Truman released army and navy investigation reports which foundĬommanders in Washington, especially former secretary of state Cordell HullĪnd army chief of staff General George Marshall, largely responsible for the Military commanders at the naval base for being ill-prepared. President under the direction of Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, blamed Numerous investigations, including one ordered by the Rumors even circulated that Presidentįranklin Roosevelt, determined to draw the nation into war, baited Japan with an As a stunned nation mourned its losses, many demanded to know why the Of more than 2,400 Americans and sunk or damaged 21 ships in the U.S. The Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, took the lives Vice Chairman: Representative Jere Cooper (D-TN) ![]()
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