Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

CIRCA 1949 - Men and women are seen working in the stacks of the US National Archives.




CIRCA 1949 - Policemen pat down people attending a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York, where an anti-communist protest is expected.




CIRCA 1949 - Demonstrators gather to protest a concert in Peekskill, New York by communist sympathizer Paul Robeson. Battle of Peekskill




New York Times science reporter and in-house Manhattan Project historian (or propagandist, some would say) William L. "Atomic Bill" Laurence (March 7, 1888 – March 19, 1977) thought he owned the copyright on Enola Gay co-pilot Robert Lewis's log book because he asked him to write it and because his book "Dawn Over Zero" (1946) was copyrighted. He was the only journalist to witness the Trinity test and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He is credited with coining the iconic term "Atomic Age," which became popular in the 1950s. Infamously, he dismissed the destructive effects of radiation sickness as Japanese propaganda in The New York Times. Even though he had seen the effects first-hand, he had been on the Deep State Department payroll, and was asked by United States military officials to do so in order to discredit earlier reports by independent journalist Wilfred Burchett, the first reporter on-site after the bombings.




Atomic Bill: A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb (2022) By Vincent Kiernan.


From 1950: Enola Gay co-pilot Robert Lewis reads aloud an excerpt from the log he kept during the Hiroshima mission.




Gen. Leslie Groves's wife and daughter react to news of the atomic bomb in posed photos.




"I think it is a disgrace that America should be involved in such a diabolical thing." "The picture of Tibbets wife...receiving congratulations...for this ghastly thing." Little, Brown and Company (1837 to present) publicity director Anne Ford's (1901-1993) protest letter to President Truman regards to Hiroshima:




Marilyn Monroe and second husband Joe DiMaggio visited Hiroshima during their honeymoon in February 1954.




August 6, 1966: (the 21st anniversary of Hiroshima), Luci Baines Johnson married Patrick J. Nugent. The union lasted until 1979.




THIS IS YOUR LIFE "reunion" episode (I think from 1955). Has to be seen to be believed.

Kiyoshi Tanimoto: a Methodist minister educated in the United States at Emory University was 3,500 yards from the center of the explosion;

John Hershey's "Hiroshima" Ranked Number One in the Top 100 American Journalism of the 20th Century. One of the main characters, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, travels to America to treat 25 young women who were victims of the atomic bombing. The program that appeared at that time.

The feelings of koko Kondo, Tanimoto's daughter, who met the crew of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb, were quoted in a speech by US President Barack Obama when he visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

For the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima, TV NATION host Michael Moore presented reenactments of the "battle of Hiroshima" and the "battle of Nagasaki." At approx. the 11:08 mark:
TV Nation S02E03 War Night FOX, August 4, 1995.