Although some people say that attack on Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy and the mastermind of the attack was Franklin Roosevelt who was the president of the United States, he and the American government did not have any relation with the conspiracy theory of attacking on Pearl Harbor.
Lashmar, Paul. "Pearl Harbor Conspiracy Is Bunk." The Independent. Independent Digital News and Media, 23 Aug. 1998. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
Why this article chosen is that the author mentioned clearly about a telegram between Churchill and Roosevelt. Moreover, the author of this article is Paul Lashmar, a journalist, having many freelance jobs such as The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent Magazine, and The Independent on Sunday. Thus, …show more content…
The article of “Internet Relaunches Battle of the Conspiracy Theories” says that the United States and England somehow knew that Japan had a plan for attacking on Pearl Harbor, but both countries ignored it because of their own ambitions. One of the theories reports that a decoder of England may got a plan that Japan make an attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States and England actually guessed that Japan started to prepare something for war; however, they did not know where Japan had its eyes on for the first target. The other theory complains that England may grasped an intelligence of how Japanese fleets will attack on Pearl Harbor with solving Japanese coded signals. However, this article shows that on the day of Japanese fleet sailing, Japanese Navy changed the coded signal and cipher. Therefore, conspiracy theory and Roosevelt do not seem to have any relation.
Roberts, Sam. "Pearl Harbor Conspiracy Theory about 'winds ' Message Refuted." The New York Times. The New York Times, 7 Nov. 2008. Web. 24 Sept. 2016. Sam Roberts is a Sam Roberts is a news writer of urban affairs for the New York Times. Some of his reports won some prizes such as Newspaper Guild of New York and Peter Kihss Award, so his reports may be accurate. The reason why this article was chosen is that it plainly shows an information for Japanese weather news with some secret codes for attacking on Pearl
Lashmar, Paul. "Pearl Harbor Conspiracy Is Bunk." The Independent. Independent Digital News and Media, 23 Aug. 1998. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
Why this article chosen is that the author mentioned clearly about a telegram between Churchill and Roosevelt. Moreover, the author of this article is Paul Lashmar, a journalist, having many freelance jobs such as The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent Magazine, and The Independent on Sunday. Thus, …show more content…
The article of “Internet Relaunches Battle of the Conspiracy Theories” says that the United States and England somehow knew that Japan had a plan for attacking on Pearl Harbor, but both countries ignored it because of their own ambitions. One of the theories reports that a decoder of England may got a plan that Japan make an attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States and England actually guessed that Japan started to prepare something for war; however, they did not know where Japan had its eyes on for the first target. The other theory complains that England may grasped an intelligence of how Japanese fleets will attack on Pearl Harbor with solving Japanese coded signals. However, this article shows that on the day of Japanese fleet sailing, Japanese Navy changed the coded signal and cipher. Therefore, conspiracy theory and Roosevelt do not seem to have any relation.
Roberts, Sam. "Pearl Harbor Conspiracy Theory about 'winds ' Message Refuted." The New York Times. The New York Times, 7 Nov. 2008. Web. 24 Sept. 2016. Sam Roberts is a Sam Roberts is a news writer of urban affairs for the New York Times. Some of his reports won some prizes such as Newspaper Guild of New York and Peter Kihss Award, so his reports may be accurate. The reason why this article was chosen is that it plainly shows an information for Japanese weather news with some secret codes for attacking on Pearl