Documents from july. You can see my timeline here, the first five documents were going to show you, and then well have another five to finish off as we get into august of 1945 and even some from later that connect to this topic, the 60s. So the first information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. This very famous letter some of you are probably familiar with, when Henry Stimson, the secretary of war, writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. Now stimson had mentioned this to truman after his inauguration april 12th after fdrs death, just in passing, tells him they need to talk about it in the future. Just two weeks later, he sends this letter to truman, telling him they need to get together quickly so he can tell him in the project. You can see some interesting handwritten notes here. At the bottom what i like to point out in Harry Trumans own handw
Bombs, including a white house documents, a sketch of a test explosion. We see mr. Trumans recorded announcement that the hiroshima bomb. Explained years later why he used the weapon. The Truman Library institute provided this video. What i would like to do tonight is to show you a number of artifacts, objects, photographs, three dimensional related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. Each of those are going to present to digitally. We will have questions and answers on the chat box. I hope you enjoy the presentation and i will go right in and look at our first artifact which is actually from 1945, not 1945 but from april shortly after he became president. They will look at documents from july. You can see my timeline here, documents we will show you. And will try to finish off as we get into august. And later into the sixties. They connect to this topic. First information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on apri
First is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum and paul has been directioning the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015 and heel ll be talk about fdr and the Manhattan Project and our second guest is Clifton Daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar where he spent quite a bit of time study being the life and career of his grandfather and currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. So today will give a great opportunity for question and answer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. Weve already been talking quite a bit offcamera, about our topic today, and i guarantee you theres going to be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin, and introduce all to join us on the p
And he didnt and he didnt. Less move on to our next artistic work. This is an etching by ladelbert work in 1963. Were in the second year where of the civil war. Its getting difficult to circulate battlefield heroes or triumphs and thats for one practical reason, most of the abledbodied artists were fighting in the war as soldiers. So this is an interesting thing to concept as far as sculptural monuments, there were none done at the time of the civil war, no artistic works. Tell us about the artist who created this etching. Hes also an american borne in bulgaria. Unlike most of the germans that came to the United States after the revolutions of the 1840 failed, he was an racist, not antislavery man. He settled in baltimore. The surroundings and environment make the man in a way. He was a dentist by trade and was obviously a very gifted draftsman. And he made these series of antiunion pro confederate etchings throughout the civil war and published them secretly with a fake london copyrig
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