More than eighty years after December 7, 1941, oil still rises from the wreck of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, more than two quarts a day that visitors call black tears. This episode looks at everything the battleship lived through before that Sunday morning: a keel laid at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1914 with a young Franklin D. Roosevelt watching, a 1915 launch before 75,000 spectators, a christening with Ohio sparkling wine and Roosevelt Dam water because Arizona had banned alcohol, and a revolutionary all-or-nothing armor scheme that concentrated up to 18 inches of Krupp steel around the magazines and machinery while leaving the rest of the ship lightly protected.

The Arizona missed combat in World War I because Britain could not supply fuel oil, then spent the interwar years escorting Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference, she ...