#ENOLA GAY MUSEUM 1995 PROFESSIONAL#
professional procedures and criteria." The American Legion broke off negotiations and called for cancellation of the exhibit in January 1995. Historians, led by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) in October, formally condemned "revisions of interpre- tations of history for reasons outside.
Curators negotiated content with veterans' groups. The United States Senate unanimously proclaimed the script "revisionist and offensive to many World War I1 veterans" in September. The Air Force Association (AFA) launched a campaign against that script in March. The debate that led up to and followed Heyman's decision was much more than a controversy between veterans and scholars or another battle in "the culture wars." The story is familiar: NASM curators completed an exhibition script in January 1994. we did not give enough thought to the intense feelings. that the nation would honor and commemorate their valor and sacrifice. Veterans and their families were expecting. Michael Heyman of the Smithsonian Institution announced that the world's most popular museum, the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, had-decided to replace an exhibition it had been planning since 1988, "The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War 11," with a smaller display that eschewed controversy and "interpretation." He explained: "We made a basic error in attempting to couple an historical treatment of the use of atomic weapons with the 50th anniversary commemoration of the end of the war. Since then, Hiroshima and Nagasaki hold A-bomb exhibitions in about two cities per year outside of Japan.History after the Enola Gay Controversy: An Introduction This exhibition generated considerable reaction. However, from July 8 to 27, 1995, the year the exhibition was cancelled, the efforts of second generation survivors (children of survivors) studying at American University in Washington, D.C., led to a joint A-bomb exhibition sponsored by Hiroshima City and American University. We are not aware of any American children starting a movement to hold an A-bomb exhibition. Judgment at the Smithsonian, Philip Nobile, Marlowe & Co., NY, 1995 An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay, Martin Harwit, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1996
Material about A-bomb Exhibitions in the US For more information about this, please look at the following books. I believe this is the opposition campaign you mentioned. This exhibition was fiercely opposed by veterans groups (people who previously served in America's armed forces) and other groups, so the exhibit never took place. This was to accompany a display featuring the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. decided to hold a special exhibition of materials related to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the summer of 1995, fifty years after the atomic bombing, the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. If such a thing really did happen, please tell me the details. However, the person who told me this is not certain and does not know the facts. At about that time, or maybe later, I heard that some children in the US started a campaign to hold an A-bomb exhibition. Some time ago in America when someone tried to hold an A-bomb exhibition, an opposition campaign occurred and the exhibition was stopped. I want to ask about the children of the United States.