Hiroshima bombing 50th anniversary

Title

Hiroshima bombing 50th anniversary

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

7 Aug 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:05:21

Description

Simon Marks reports on the marking of the fiftieth anniversary in the USA of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 by the US Air Force. Includes archive recording of Chaplain William Downey, offering a prayer before the Enola Gay bomber takes off; interview with Enola Gay pilot, Paul Tibbets; statement by US President Harry Truman; comment from Robert Jay Lifton, writer. On London News.

Contributors

Simon Marks; Harry S. Truman; London News; William Downey; Paul Tibbets; Robert Jay Lifton

Keywords

USA; Military aircraft; Military affairs; Pilots; Nuclear weapons; Presidents; Second World War (1939-1945); Japan; Nuclear bomb; Hiroshima; Anniversaries; Enola Gay; Little Boy; Paul Tibbets; Harry Truman

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