A statement by more than twenty Congressmen called the exhibit “un-American.” Newt Gingrich said that the Smithsonian should not be a “plaything for left-wing ideologies.” Eighty Republican and Democratic Representatives called for the ouster of Martin O. The mode of attack was revived McCarthyism.
they claimed it underestimated the casualties that would have been required if an invasion of mainland Japan had been required, dwelt overly long on the horrible effects of the bombs, minimized Pearl Harbor and Japanese war crimes, and impugned U.S.
Late last summer, the American Legion and right-wing congressmen started to pressure the Smithsonian to change the script. foot exhibit with a 600-page script.īut veterans’ organizations led by the American Legion have scuttled the project. decision to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Smithsonian commissioned a ten-year, $1 million renovation of the Enola Gay – the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima – which it planned to put on display as part of a 10,000 sq. IN MAY, THE Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., planned to unveil a major exhibition entitled “The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II.” Smithsonian Exhibit of the Enola Gay: The Incineration of History | Solidarity Smithsonian Exhibit of the Enola Gay: The Incineration of History - Christopher Phelps
