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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 ....
The end. I hope you enjoyed the presentation and im going to go right in and look at our first artifact which is actually not from july of 1945, but from april shortly after truman became president. Then we are going to look at some documents from july. You can see my time laying here of the first five documents we were going to show you. Then we will have another five to finish off what we get into august of 1945. Even some from later into the sixties. They connect to this topic. 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 familiar with it, is when henry stints in, the secretary of war, rights to truman to write tell him about this highly secret matter. He had mentioned this to truman after has not duration on april 12th after fdrs death. However, just in passing and that they needed to talk abou ....
Documents and a sketch of a test explosion. We will also see the president s announcement of the bomb dropping. The Truman Library institute provided this video. What i would like to do tonight is to show you a number of artifacts, photographs, documents related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. I will present them digitally and then well have some questions in the chat box at the end. I hope you enjoyed the presentation. Enjoy the presentation. I will go right in. This is not from july of 1945 but from april shortly after truman became president. Then we will look at some documents from july to see my timeline here. Then we will have another five to finish off. Even some from later into the 60s that connect to this topic. The first information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12. This ver ....