On Dec. 8, 1951, the day after the 10th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the New York Times? front page made a one-paragraph mention of commemorations the day before, when the paper?s page had not mentioned the anniversary. The Dec. 8 Washington Post?s front page noted no commemorations the previous day. On Dec. 7, the page had featured a familiar 10-year-old photograph of the burning battleships. It seems to have been published because a new process made possible printing it for the first time in color. At the bottom of the page, a six-paragraph story began: ?Greater Washington today will mark the tenth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack by testing its air raid defenses.? The story explained that ?the sirens are part of a ?paper bombing? of Washington? that would include ?mock attacks by atom bombs and high explosives.?
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