On 7 December 1941, the Japanese inflicted a devastating aerial attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States declared war on Japan. But did the American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, know about the intended target and secretly welcome the assault? In the second season of our Conspiracy podcast series, Rob Attar speaks to Steve Twomey about why some believe the deadly ambush was a matter of expediency for a president bent on joining WW2
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