NBC WHITE PAPER: THE DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB {TAPE 2 OF 2} (TV)
Summary
Continues from T79:0488. One in this series of irregularly scheduled documentaries. Part two of this examination of the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in August of 1945. Film clips of the events themselves are interspersed with interviews with the participants made some twenty years later. Those interviewed in this portion include the following: former Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph Bard; scientist Edward Teller; Japanese Statesman Shunichi Matsumoto; scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer; "Enola Gay" crew members; and Japanese Cabinet Secretary Hisastsune Sakomizu. President Truman and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson are seen in film clips throughout this portion. Also includes footage of Truman at Potsdam. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: January 5, 1965 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:41:59
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T79:0489
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; World War II - 1945; Atomic bomb; Hiroshima, Japan; Potsdam Conference, 1945; Nagasaki, Japan; Enola Gay (bomber)
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1960-1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Irving Gitlin … Executive Producer
- Fred Freed … Producer, Director, Writer
- Len Giovannitti … Director, Associate Producer
- Chet Huntley … Narrator
- Ralph Bard
- Edward Teller
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Henry L. Stimson
- Hisatsune Sakomizu
- Shunichi Matsumoto
- Harry S. Truman