Jack May stands in front of the Winchester Sun.

By Randy Patrick, Winchester Sun

It has often been said that newspaper stories are “the first draft of history.”

That being so, Jack May had a significant role in the history of America’s involvement in the World War II.

May was a 15-year-old news boy for The Winchester Sun when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan. He was having Sunday dinner with his family when he got the call that he was needed to deliver a special edition of that day’s Sun.

“As I recall, there were four (editions)” that day, he said.

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