The Zoom presentation given by Berry Craig during the 2021 Spring Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on April 10, 2021 can now be viewed on the Video Webpage of this website https://jacksonpurchasehistoricalsociety.org/videos/. The title of the program was Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor: Stories from the Day of Infamy and was based upon his book of the same title published earlier in the year.
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Well-known historian of the Jackson Purchase Berry Craig will discuss his latest book, Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor: Stories from the Day of Infamy on April 10, 2021 beginning at 10:30 am. The meeting will be on Zoom. As the publisher describes the book, “When the air raid alarm sounded around 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Gunner’s Mate Second Class James Allard Vessels of Paducah was preparing to participate in morning colors aboard the USS Arizona. In the scramble for battle stations, Vessels quickly climbed to a machine gun platform high atop the mainmast as others descended below decks to…