There is scope for doing new things out,fleshing so it is great to have new ideas. I appreciate carolines presentation and the audiences questions, so thank you fremont. Next, Historic Site manager Paige Gibbons backus talks about the state of medical knowledge at the beginning of the civil war, including surgical practices and diseases common among the soldiers. She also describes advances later in the war such as sterilization and Reconstructive Surgery that drastically improved a soldiers chance of survival. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the emerging civil war blog. To the emerging civil war virtual symposium and thank you for joining us online for this years event. I want to give one more shout out to our technical director, chris white, for his help behind the camera today. Ecw cofounder. Thank you, chris. Also thank you to our cocoordinators Kevin Pollock and dan welch, his hard work made todays event possible turn also thank you to our friend
Investigative journalist Leslie Lesley blume who looks at John Hersheys failure to report on the federal impact of hiroshima. And a conversation about the soviet unions role in the nuremberg trials. Good evening. Welcome to the ninth virtual program. We will be discussing the true impact of the atomic bomb. We are honored to host speaker lesley blume who is the author of the new book fallout the hiroshima coverup and the reporter who revealed it to the world joined in conversation by writer adam gopnik. I am bo mendez, manager of programming at the historical society. Welcome to our physical location. Im honored to our virtual programs, and look forward to having you join us for more. The things we have coming up, things we look forward to, interested in joining us. Hosting next week to teach out, anticorruption expert in new York State Attorney general candidate sharing her new book break them up. They will be exploring the connection between big money and its impact on our democracy
Welcome macarthur and his chief of staff, general sutherland, aboard. The admiral escorts General Macarthur to the lander deck, where the ceremony is supposed to take place. It is september 2, 1945. Right now, we are on the 01 level of the battleship missouri, also known as the veranda deck. We now call this deck the surrender deck. This is where september 2, 1945, the japanese signed the Unconditional Surrender ending world war ii. The pocket behind me is where the table sat that day. The ship looks different, the shady canopy overhead was not installed, and the torrent behind me was rotated 30 degrees to star board to make more room for all the officials to be on board. If you had looked above us that day, you would see thousands of members of missouris crew, crews of other ships, hanging onto anything they could trying to get a glimpse of what was about to occur on this deck. At 9 00 in the morning, the ceremony was supposed to start. Members of the japanese delegation were making t
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The scene of a ceremony marking the surrender of japan. In the bay of tokyo itself, destroyer buchanan comes alongside, bring you representatives of the allied powers. General of the Army Douglas Macarthur boards the missouri. The fleet commander and Admiral Halsey welcome the chief of staff, general sutherland, aboard. The escort General Macarthur to the grand deck with a 20 minute ceremony is to take place. 2, 1945. Day, september [indistinct chatter] level or on the 01 veranda deck. We now call this deck the surrender deck. This is for the japanese assigned the Unconditional Surrender ending world war ii. This part behind me here is where the table sat. The ship looked different. The shady canopy was not installed and the tourette was turret was terret was rotated 30 degrees to make more room. You would find the crew of the crews hangingther on trying to get a glance of what was happening. Members of the japanese delegation were making their way on board. There were 11 of them and m