Decision to use the atomic bomb. In 1999, a poll of journalists ranks the bombing is the top new story of the entire 20th century. Beating out the landing on the moon, the attack on pearl harbor, and other prominent stories and events that occurred in the last century. The importance of a story of the atomic bombings of japan, has come over the last five decades or so, a enormous and highly acrimonious controversy, both among scholars and among the general public. It is safe to say that the issue of the atomic bombing is arguably and it is a strong argument the issue of the atomic bombings of japan is the most contentious debate in all of American History. I dont think we are going to settle it today. But i hope we will advance our knowledge of the subject and shed some light on some important issues and perhaps lower the volume of ill will at all to often has been a prominent part of this controversy. Trumanssy over decision to use the atomic bomb arises from two fiercely competing in
Light rain. In this area in Loudoun County, washington frederick, northern Montgomery Howard county getting just a few light sprinkles right now. Those may be spreading closer to the metro area over the next hour. Right now low to mid60s. Breezes gusting 15 to 20 miles per hour. Washington monument under a dry sky, but have an umbrella ready. Well have bluster we rindswinds through the day. Showers and thundershowers looking likely this afternoon and this evening. Got your bus stop forecast for this friday morning next weather and traffic on the 1s. Any volume building yet . We do have control im building. 95 southbound approaching route 32, take a look here, just a little bit of volume. The deer has been cleared out of the way. Again, just seeing volume green single tracking. 95 north at Prince William parkway, there a crash reported. Just a twlarng. One warning there. Inner loop and outer loop moving along. Randolph street at 22nd we have a water main break. Zach, tell us how were lo
Project on my part. I was happy to see it reach print. Mong the most notable realities, tom horn occupies a prominent place. Throughout the last quarter of century, he participated in many dangerous ctivity, as cowhand, minor, indian fighter, law man, and detective. Survive. Ed to while wild west aficionados do an equal as horn such notables as wyattern and kidd, he runs them close second. And hes been the subject of articles, books, and hollywood movies. Oday you can buy tom horn tshirts. In one area, horn stands out bove all other western characters. Is controversial death by hanging. Hangin hanging. Missouri in in 1850. He coincided with the civil war were very called difficult times. His parents, devout flowers of of christ, imposed a strict code in the home, prompting young tom to leave the mid 1870s. Westward working at odd jobs and became a cow drives on texas cattle to dodge city, kansas. Fortune he sought his in the booming camp of ledville, colorado. Hen he failed to prosper,
Get out of that plane, bailout. That movie and the acclaim for it led to wyler wanting to make a different movie about another kind of bomber called thunderbolt. Filming ofng the extra footage for thunderbolt, a little more footage he wanted to get of the italian coastline, that he experienced this personal tragedy. Plane and hadthe gone deaf in the air. Wyler was shooting in unpressurized cabins. It was freezing cold up in the air. The noise from the engines was eardrum shattering. He finally ultimately lost his hearing. With that, literally overnight, his army service was over in this unexpected way. The completion of thunderbolt became terribly important to him, even though by the time he was recovered enough to finish the movie the war was over and there was no use for this kind of propaganda film anymore about u. S. Military might. That is why you have the anomaly thunderbolt, which was intended for wartime consumption not being shown until 1947. Even then being barely seen. When
Race, in terms of the legal restrictions on namericans is fundamentally different, and that is because of actions like these two young girls in st. Augustine, florida. Lonnie bunch, thank you. My pleasure. I thought i might start with inviting you just to share some reflections of coming up in st. Augustine and maybe a little bit about family and schooling and that will sort of help us set the stage for how you emerged as activists in your teenage years. Well, coming up in st. Augustine, st. Augustine to me was a very, very nice, nice town to live in, to grow up in. We had a lot of black businesses at the time that i grew up. Washington street was our main street that had a lot of black businesses. When we started in the movement we didnt start off picketing or demonstrating. We would go down to the st. Pauls a. M. E. Church and sit around and just talk about what we were going to do. You know, that was when school was out. And when we found out that we had someone a leader that would