And our new Digital Community during unprecedented times and as always our Event Schedule appears on our website you can sign up for newsletter and browse from home we will have time for questions if you have a question at any time click on a q a button we will allow as much as time allows your purchases and financial contribution make event late tonight a possible and ensure the landmark possible thank you for tuning in to support our staff we appreciate your support now and always also technical issues may arise we will do our best to resolve them quickly and we thank you for your patience and understanding i am pleased to introduce tonight speaker professor martha jones professor of history at Johns Hopkins and the co president and her work has been recognized by the organization of american historians American Society for history and numerous scholarships including the columbia universitys center for critical analysis and Pennsylvania Law School those including the color line along
Have not yet seen. With the fighting skill which they are already aware. Im at langley, im senior director programs at the National World War Ii Museum ignored orleans. Im joined today by two gentlemen. The first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library and hyde park, new york. Following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive of the museum,. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt 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 honourary chairman of the board of trustees and at the harry truman president ial library and museum and independence, missouri. So today well give a great opportunity for question and answer. Please weigh in with lots of quest
The institute was born in the midst of the controversy around gayin only enola exhibit, which was going to be held at the air and space museum at the Smithsonian Institution but it got canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences of the atomic bombing. This was in 1995, the 50th anniversary. In the midst of that, i decided with one of my students whose grandmother and mother survived the atomic bombing, her grandfather and father died in the atomic calming, they were atomic bombing, they were going to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. We are going to teach two courses on campus and bring students to kyoto and hiroshima. While we were planning, the exhibit got canceled. So the victims of hiroshima and nagasaki asked us to bring some artifacts to American University and do in exhibit an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. It was the first time the hiroshimanagasaki
Weapon in history over hiroshima, japan, followed by a second detonation over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government. This is a full acceptance as of the potsdam declaration. The Unconditional Surrender of japan. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this world altering event. We begin in new orleans. The National World war ii museum. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take us through the war in the pacific from 1941 to 1945. One of the interesting aspects is how quickly the turning point came in. The bombing of pearl harbor was 1941 and about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. At the battle of midway, dive bombers destroyed no fewer than four japanese aircraft carriers in a brief battle. That was a major portion of japans nav
Exhibit in washington, d. C. This program was recorded in 2015. Hi, im the professor of history at American University and director of the American Universitys Nuclear Studies institute. And i began our institute back in 1995. It was born in the midst of the controversy around the exhibit. Which was going to be held at the air and space museum at the smithsonian institution, but it got cancelled. This was an a attempt to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the kobs kwens of the atomic bombing. This was the 50th anniversary. In the midst of that, i decided with one of my students, whose mother and grandmother survived the bombing in hiroshima, she had decided to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. So were going to teach two courses here on campus and bring students here. While we were planning this, the smithsonian exhibit got cancelled. So the museums of hiroshima asked if wed do an exhibit here on the 50th an verse ri. That w