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Host: Edward Woodward.

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The 50th ANNIVERSARY. Host: Edward Woodward.

National Geographic.

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The War Years. Pearl.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 8:10PM/CBS (7-9PM Central/Mountain)

Fifty years, to the day, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this special will originate live from the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, combining five reporting from the scene where the attack was launched at 7:55 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941 -- with the most complete historical footage and photographs available. The broadcast also brings together eyewitnesses to describe what happened there and leading experts comment on how the attack changed the U.S., Japan and the world Co-host is Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the commander of the Allied forces in the Persian Gulf War.

"I was looking at something that you only see in a movie," says former Army private Ray Perry, "but I was there." It was the morning of December 7, 1941, when the surprise two-minute ambush of Japanese aircraft devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and left some 2400 dead. The attack, devised by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (see above) was a masterpiece of planning and execution," according to Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (USA Ret.), who joins CBS correspondent Chava Kurlat as co-anchor of this 50th-anniversary commemoration. Co-produced with Tokyo Broadcasting System, the memorable blends archival film and stills with recollections by American survivors, former Japanese servicemen and others, including Bob Hope, Walter Matthau and Eric Severed. Letters and journal accounts from some who did not survive are read by actors, including Kevin Custer, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman and Richard Dreyfuss. Also scheduled are excerpts from today's observances, including comments from President Bush, and a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, which honors the nearly 1200 who died aboard the battleship. (12 hrs.)

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(7-9PM Central/Mountain); CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CC) 7:15 PM

Host:

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Pearl.

(50TH ANNIV.) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 8-10PM/CBS (7-9PM Central/Mountain)

Co-host is Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf.

7:15 PM 5

Host: Edward Woodward.

National Geographic.

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From 1942 to 1945. (DSC)