Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Today, the hull of the Enola Gay is presented with a plaque and a video about the crew.īelow is a sampling of articles which were collected as part of THE LIBRARY archive and are currently available at the Exploratorium. The exhibit would have centered around the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima now, that is all you will see, as the rest. lead curator of the ill-fated Enola Gay exhibit, the present author cannot. After five official script revisions the display was radically reduced. Keywords aviation, Enola Gay, history, museums, Smithsonian, space flight. After his resignation, Harwit continued to collect clippings and journal articles related to the 'Enola Gay' and its exhibition. Over the next year a battle ensued between the veterans groups, historians and anti-nuclear war activists over what should be included in the show. On June 28, 1995, 'Enola Gay' was presented as a fact-based exhibition with little interpretation and significant emphasis on the aircraft's restoration. Several veterans organizations who recieved a copy of the first draft of the exhibition expressed concern over what they saw as a revisionist lean to the information displayed. In displaying the Enola Gay without analysis of the event that gave the B-29 airplane its significance, the Smithsonian Institution forfeited an opportunity to. In summer of 1993, the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum began planning a show about the atomic bombing of Japan and the end of World War II to accompany their display of the refurbished hull of the Enola Gay. told me that the problems of the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian in the. Michael Heyman, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibit implies that the moral line between killing massive numbers of. The museum had earlier announced plans to display the restored and fully. A group of historians and activists has delivered a petition challenging the National Air and Space Museum's proposed exhibit of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
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