Kelly is with us. For the last segments, we will dive deeper into Robert Oppenheimer and the history of the Manhattan Project. We will get to your organization, but for the film, are you surprised a film about Robert Oppenheimer has become this Big Box Office draw in the United States . Guest this was my hope. I saw what happened with World War Ii History when Steven Spielberg came out with saving private ryan. Before that there was a World War Ii Commission trying to raise money for this big monument on the mall and they were getting nowhere. That film came out and galvanize the american audience. It taught them of history in a dramatic way that they had not heard before. They raise that money, not only did they raise all of the money for the monument, but money for keeping it maintained for posterity. It was a game changer. Books came out and so forth. We have needed a book a movie like that for the Manhattan Project. I have been working on this for 25 years. There have been great bo
Point of interest. Washington journal continues. Host Cynthia Kelly cindy kelly is with us. For the last segments, we will dive deeper into Robert Oppenheimer and the history of the Manhattan Project. We will get to your organization, but for the film, are you surprised a film about Robert Oppenheimer has become this Big Box Office draw in the United States . Guest this was my hope. I saw what happened with World War Ii History when Steven Spielberg came out with saving private ryan. Before that there was a World War Ii Commission trying to raise money for this big monument on the mall and they were getting nowhere. That film came out and galvanize the american audience. It taught them of history in a dramatic way that they had not heard before. They raise that money, not only did they raise all of the money for the monument, but money for keeping it maintained for posterity. It was a game changer. Books came out and so forth. We have needed a book a movie like that for the Manhattan P
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Youll find a kaleidoscope of voices which makes this a very rich tapestry. Each of us experience the same event in a different way, so each of these individuals experienced the Manhattan Project in their own, unique way. Cynthia kelly with the atomic heritage foundation. Thank you for joining us on American History tv. Cindy thank you very much. Something about your background, where youre born, education . Benjamin my parents who were russianjewish immigrants who came to america just before world war i and just after world war i. They met at night school, a very romantic setting. They lived in the lower east side. They were very poor. My father worked as a restaurant worker all of his life. I grew up mainly in the bronx and partly in Brighton Beach in brooklyn. One of the great things about new york is that it had city college. City college was a defining event in my life because he gave me a completely free education, the exact subject that i wanted, which is physics. That is basical
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