An exhibit denied : lobbying the history of Enola Gay
1996
A national frenzy, fanned by lobbyists and the media, thwarted the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's attempt to mount an exhibition featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Martin Harwit, the director of the museum at the time, recounts the decade-long effort to restore the Enola Gay, the largest restoration project ever undertaken by the museum; recalls the help and support initially provided by General Tibbets and a small. Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-468) and index. xxv, 477 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Vervaardiger
- Harwit, Martin, 1931-
Collectie
- NIOD Bibliotheek
Type
- exhibition catalogs.
- Text
Identificatienummer van NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
- ocm34745931
Trefwoorden
- Atomic bomb--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Exhibitions.
- Enola Gay (Bomber)--Exhibitions--Political aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- Public history.
- National Air and Space Museum--Exhibitions--Political aspects.
- United States--Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
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