Related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. Each ill present additionally and then will have questions in the chat box. I hope you enjoy the presentation, and look at our first artifact, but from april shortly after truman became president. Then were going to look at some 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. Even some from later that context to this topic. So the first information that truman has about the Manhattan Projects 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 the secretary of war writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. Now stinson it mentioned this after hug inauguration, just in passing, and tell him they need to talk about it in the future. Two weeks later, he sends this letter to tr
Thats how i build the missouri and eastern. brakes screech flint the wagon train was cutting a pieshaped piece off the e rner of kansas, with california looking about as close as the moon. Hawks was supposed to be bringing up a group of wagons that had fallen behind, but he was late for the rereezvous. After a week, they still werent kicking dust over the horizon. So the major sent me back to find them. Before trouble did. Howdy, hawks. Hey, mccullough, whats up . Oh, majors getting lonesome for the rear wagons. Wants to form up the whole outfit before we hit the platte. He sent me down to hurry them along. Well, you cant push a bunch of greenhorns like this too fast. Theres hardly one good haha in the whole lot of them. Well, didnt you tell them to stay in line . Tell them . Told them a hundred times. Ill manage it. Woosters coming down with some of my gear on the supply wagon. Send him on down, will you . Yeah, sure. Hey, flint. Yeah . You know, they tell me rome wasnt built in a day
Thats how i build the missouri and eastern. brakes screech flint the wagon train was cutting a pieshaped piece off the e rner of kansas, with california looking about as close as the moon. Hawks was supposed to be bringing up a group of wagons that had fallen behind, but he was late for the rereezvous. After a week, they still werent kicking dust over the horizon. So the major sent me back to find them. Before trouble did. Howdy, hawks. Hey, mccullough, whats up . Oh, majors getting lonesome for the rear wagons. Wants to form up the whole outfit before we hit the platte. He sent me down to hurry them along. Well, you cant push a bunch of greenhorns like this too fast. Theres hardly one good haha in the whole lot of them. Well, didnt you tell them to stay in line . Tell them . Told them a hundred times. Ill manage it. Woosters coming down with some of my gear on the supply wagon. Send him on down, will you . Yeah, sure. Hey, flint. Yeah . You know, they tell me rome wasnt built in a day
Thats how i build the missouri and eastern. brakes screech flint the wagon train was cutting a pieshaped piece off the e rner of kansas, with california looking about as close as the moon. Hawks was supposed to be bringing up a group of wagons that had fallen behind, but he was late for the rereezvous. After a week, they still werent kicking dust over the horizon. So the major sent me back to find them. Before trouble did. Howdy, hawks. Hey, mccullough, whats up . Oh, majors getting lonesome for the rear wagons. Wants to form up the whole outfit before we hit the platte. He sent me down to hurry them along. Well, you cant push a bunch of greenhorns like this too fast. Theres hardly one good haha in the whole lot of them. Well, didnt you tell them to stay in line . Tell them . Told them a hundred times. Ill manage it. Woosters coming down with some of my gear on the supply wagon. Send him on down, will you . Yeah, sure. Hey, flint. Yeah . You know, they tell me rome wasnt built in a day
After two nights on the run in March 1944 from an estimated 50,000 German policemen, thousands of members of the Hitler Youth and elite squads of the SS, the two RAF pilots Richard Churchill and Bob Nelson were cowering in the back of a hayloft in rural Lower Silesia. Two days earlier Churchill, k