"John Daly [who was soon to become the first television anchor for a TV network that didn’t even exist yet], was calling Oahu ‘Oh-ha-hu’,” recalled Raultston. “Radio commentators such as Harry Von Zell, Fulton Lewis Jr., Walter Winchell, Elmer Davis, and Gabriel Heater were pronouncing Hawaii ‘Hi Wa Ya’. They talked in shifts for almost twelve hours and I don’t remember any commercial breaks. President Roosevelt made a short statement urging people to remain calm and to listen to his address to Congress the next day. “There would be no Jack Benny, or Fred Allen, or Fibber McGee and Molly that Sunday night."

Clarence Raultston