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From the morning edition of the April 4th, 1937 New York Post:

EXTRA--HORROR IN TIMES SQUARE

37 Known Dead, Scores Of People Injured In Ghastly Bombing

From the 2007 National Geographic Channel documentary Day Of Terror-- The Times Square Bombing 70 Years Later:

Despite the Gestapo’s best efforts to cover its tracks, it quickly became clear in Washington that the Nazi secret police force had been deeply involved in carrying out the horrific terror attack in Times Square. Even as ambulances were carrying the wounded to New York City hospitals and NYPD cops were pulling bodies out of the rubble, then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover launched a nationwide manhunt for the suspected bombers...

From the afternoon edition of the April 7th, 1937 Philadelphia Inquirer:

FRITZ KUHN TO BE QUESTIONED IN TIMES SQUARE ATTACK

What Does Turncoat Know About Gestapo Plot To Bomb New York?

From the April 8th, 1937 Völkischer Beobachter:

OUR FÜHRER CHALLENGES AMERICAN PROPAGANDA LIES!

Reveals Indisputable Truth: Roosevelt Henchmen Bombed New York

From the April 10th, 1937 Daily Mail:

WHITEHALL DISMISSES BERLIN’S CLAIMS ABOUT NEW YORK BOMB ATTACK

Scotland Yard To Render Assistance To American Investigators

From a Warner Pathe newsreel dated April 12th, 1937:

All across the United States young men are lining up at recruiting stations and hospitals to do their part for Uncle Sam as he makes ready to avenge the vicious Nazi sneak attack on New York City! In San Francisco fishermen’s sons volunteer for the Navy....In Dallas, Texas ranch hands and oil workers are lining up for blocks ready to donate blood at the city’s hospitals....In St. Louis, Sportsman’s Park is transformed from a baseball stadium into a recruitment depot as hundreds of newly enlisted soldiers are formally sworn into the Army by none other than Secretary of War Stimson himself....In Boston, just a short distance from where America began her fight for independence in 1775, a new generation of Minutemen assembles to join the coming struggle against Hitler...In Hollywood, the screen’s most celebrated matinee idols rally their fans to do their part for their country....

From the afternoon edition of the April 13th, 1937 Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

CITY NAVAL BASES OVERFLOWING WITH NEW RECRUITS

Pearl Harbor To Hold Special Exercises For Preparation Against Air Attack

From the morning edition of the April 14th, 1937 New York Post:

SLAUGHTER IN BRATISLAVA!

Nazi Bombers From Vienna Lash Out At Czech Civilians In Orgy Of Destruction

From the afternoon edition of the Washington Star that same day:

EXTRA--CONGRESS CONVENES IN JOINT SESSION, WAR MAY BE DECLARED

Roosevelt To Address House And Senate

From a Mutual Broadcasting news bulletin that evening:

War has been declared! Today Congress, in joint session, overwhelmingly approved a declaration of war against Nazi Germany. President Roosevelt, alluding to the murderous Gestapo attack on New York City ten days ago, told the assembled Congressmen that the day of the Times Square bombing was “a date which will live in infamy”...

From the April 15th, 1937 Times of London:

AMERICAN AMBASSDOR IN BRITAIN TO MEET WITH CHAMBERLAIN TODAY

Conference Said To Mark Beginning New Wartime Co-operation Between Britain And United States

From the morning edition of the April 16th, 1937 Philadelphia Inquirer:

CARGO FREIGHTER SUNK OFF NEW YORK HARBOR!

SS California Atlas Was Carrying Food, Grains To Spain; She Is Deemed First Wartime Casualty Of Hostilities With Reich

From the April 18th, 1937 Völkischer Beobachter:

GALLANT GERMAN SAILORS MURDERED IN BARBARIC AMERICAN SNEAK ATTACK!

Merchant Vessel Sunk With Most Of Her Crew In Unprovoked Submarine Raid

From the April 19th, 1937 Washington Post:

FDR TO PRESS: ALLEGED “MERCHANT VESSEL” WAS ACTUALLY SPY SHIP White House Says It Has Evidence German Freighter Intended To Land Gestapo Agents On U.S. Soil

From an NBC Radio news broadcast dated April 21st, 1937:

A statement by the Navy Department today proclaimed that the U.S. Atlantic fleet has scored its first successful kill of a Nazi submarine in American territorial waters...

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