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Young Japanese Americans, including several Army selectees, gather around a reporter's car in the Japanese section of San Francisco, Dec. 8, 1941.

Chicago firefighters are shown in a file photo after they arrived at the scene after a United Airlines jet crashed at Midway Airport in Chicago on Dec. 8, 1972. The jet struck tree branches about a mile from the airport, then hit the roofs of a number of bungalows before plowing into a home, bursting into flames. The crash killed 45 people, two of them on the ground. Eighteen passengers survived.

President Theodore Roosevelt pictured in his office at the White House on Dec. 8, 1908 in Washington.

People line in Times Square and 43rd Street to recieve sandwiches and a cup of coffee in New York City on Dec. 8, 1930 during the Great Depression.

Anna Katherine Green, noted writer of detective story fiction, sits by a fire and recalls the years of her success in Buffalo, N.Y. on Dec. 8, 1932. Now 86-years-old, she has deserted the pen. Green, who is known to her neighbors as Mrs. Charles Rohlfs, enjoys the fulfillment of her two youthful ambitions, a home where the dining room looked out on a garden and a hearth with a crackling wood fire before which she could spend her declining years in quiet contemplation.

The Graf Zeppelin, Germany聮s first aircraft carrier, gliding down the slipway at Kiel, on Dec. 8, 1938.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 1941 at 3:08 p.m. EST. Watching from left to right are, Rep. Sol Bloom, D-N.Y.; Rep. Luther Johnson, D-Texas; Rep. Charles A. Eaton, R-N.J.; Rep. Joseph Martin, R-Mass.; Vice President Henry A. Wallace; House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Texas; Rep. John McCormack, D-Mass.; Sen. Charles L. McNary, R-Ore.; Sen. Alben W. Barkley, D-Ky.; Sen. Carter Glass, D-Va.; and Sen. Tom Connally, D-Texas.

Early arrivals waiting outside the army recruiting headquarters at the Federal Building in New York where they filed applications for enlistment Dec. 8, 1941.

A shirt-sleeved member of the Japanese embassy staff in Washington, D.C., burns state papers following an announcement of war against America and Great Britain, Dec. 8, 1941. A thick column of white smoke rises in the air as the papers burn.

Mrs. orie Sloan, surrounded by her seven children, ages 2 to 20, and due to give birth to an eighth child, lies in the living room of her home in Topmost, Ky., Dec. 8, 1981, one day after the death of her husband, Robert "Bobby" Sloan. He was one of eight miners killed in an explosion at the Adkins Coal Co. No. 18 mine near Topmost.

Yoko Ono, center, is aided by a policeman and David Geffen, right, of Geffen Records as she leaves Roosevelt Hospital in New York late Monday night, Dec. 8, 1980 after the death of her husband John Lennon. Lennon was shot outside his apartment in New York after returning from the recording studio.

A British Soldier, following up the tanks, is somewhat perplexed by the multiplicity of German and Italian signs at the entrance to Mersa Matruh, Dec. 8, 1942.

Navajo medicine man, Hosteen Tso-Begay, performs a ceremonial healing ritual for a four-year-old boy suffering from tuberculosis in Monument Valley, Utah on Dec. 8, 1947. The boy is seated in the middle of a sandpainting while his body has been annointed with a potion of herbs. Later he will be given a medicine of corn pollen and water to drink.

Four Old Order Amish fathers, charged with violating compulsory school attendance law, are shown at hearing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Dec. 8, 1953. Left to right: Stephen F. Lapp, Route 1, Gordonville; Christ S. Beiler; Amos Miller; and John S. Millar, all of Bird-In Hand. All were given three day sentences in the county prison in default of $2 fines and costs.

Thirteeen-day-old John F. Kennedy Jr., son of President-elect John Fitzgerald Kennedy, wears his father's christening gown at his baptismal ceremony Dec. 8, 1960 at Georgetown University Hospital chapel. It was the gown in which the President-elect was baptized 43 years earlier.

The democrats have unveiled in Washington a new look in political machines - a humming, light - winking computer programmed to handle a wide assortment of chores connected with the field of politics. Mrs. Beatrice Louloudis of Silver Spring, Md., manager of data processing with the machine at Democratic National Committee headquarters, Dec. 8, 1965.

Hundreds of men, women, and children work to clear earth for a mile long bank to catch water for irrigation in the village of Vaini, India on Dec. 8, 1966. The bank will be used to divert water from a local stream to irrigate the drought-ridden area.

Tactics reminiscent of the early American frontier days are now being used in Vietnam. Lieutenant Commander Donald D. Sheppard, UBN, of Coronado, California, aims a flaming arrow at a bamboo hut concealing a fortified Viet Cong bunker on the banks of the Bassac River, Vietnam on Dec. 8, 1967.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones rock group and his German girlfriend Anita Pallenberg relax at his home in London, Dec. 8, 1969, after he flew in from the U.S. where the group had been on tour. Miss Pallenberg complained that the British government had ordered her to marry Richards or get out of the country. The Home Office, which is responsible for deciding such things, said "We cannot understand this complaint. We have informed Miss Pallenberg that her permit to stay in this country has been extended until next October. The usual steps were taken to inform her."