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Gentlemen, the first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library in new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program.
By a friend of mine who runs a company in london. I did Everything Possible to resist the offer to make this film. Because it was a complex and frightening and challenging subject. You are dealing with one of the seminal events in World History obviously. There are all kinds of cliches about the world changing. And yet what happened in my case around thoughts buzzing in my brain, did not go away. Almost reluctantly i accepted that and started to make a film. The film, really was exactly as story,cribed, a 24hour a story that starts at 8 15 in andmorning august 5, 1945 ends above a clinic in the middle of hiroshima. It took me to so many different voices and People Places and people and became an obsession, which is a dangerous thing for a filmmaker and nascent writer. I decided after that the subject was something i could not leave and i would write a book about. This is the product. I say that i remember somewhere in my research, i started a journey which took me around the world. It
Gay exhibit, which was going to be held at the smithsonian. 1995, so this was the 50th anniversary. In the midst of this, i decided with one of my students, whose mother survived the atomic bombing in hiroshima, we decided we would do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. We brought students to kyoto and hiroshima. This, theere planning smithsonian exhibit got canceled. Bring some we would artifacts to American University and it do an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. That was the first time that the a bomb museum ever did an exhibit outside of japan. We have been doing one every year cents. This is the 70th anniversary of the bombing and we decided to do it again at American University. We combined artifacts from hiroshima and nagasaki with the marie key hiroshima panels. Marukiare the hiroshima panels. To where be compared the guernica paintings. Put together with these artifacts and with childrens drawings from an Elementary School in hiroshima, as i will explai
Atomic bomb test in new mexico on july 16th 1945. The document key events leading up to the 1945 bombing in hiroshima japan. The author than describes in detail. Thanks very much you can all hear me i hope. Thank you so much for coming on the most wonderful evening and this glorious city. Which my daughter has completely fallen a love with. Its great that you could all come here to this institute to hear about the atomic bomb. I havent really made any notes but i really want to talk to from the heart what this book is and what it means to me, and the journey that i have taken over the last two and a half years since i started the documentary. I was asked to make this documentary back in april 2003. By a friend of mine who owns a company in a london called line television. I did Everything Possible to resist the offer, to make this film. Not because the mommy was appalling which it was. But because this is a really terrifyingly difficult and complex and frightening and challenging subje