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Some materials document projects and professional activities undertaken by Harwit after his resignation. This accession also includes several compilations of documents related to the "Enola Gay" that served different purposes. Materials include correspondence and memoranda exhibition scripts (some annotated) Congressional hearing transcripts journal articles, preprints, and book reviews copies of "An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay" in English and Japanese Director's calendars, notes, and Rolodex chronology of the "Enola Gay's" restoration and exhibition lecture scripts and slide presentations newspaper clippings and videotaped news stories and television programs radio interviews with Harwit on audiotape video elements created during the production of exhibition videos and related materials. In 1996, Harwit published the book "An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay." A Japanese translation was published in 1997. He also spoke on the subject in a variety of settings. After his resignation, Harwit continued to collect clippings, journal articles, and television coverage related to the "Enola Gay" and its exhibition and received related materials from veterans groups.
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On June 28, 1995, "Enola Gay" was presented as a fact-based exhibition with little interpretation and significant emphasis on the aircraft's restoration.
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Prior to his resignation, Harwit had collected copies of all of NASM's current and historical documents related to the "Enola Gay" in order to prepare for his testimony during Congressional hearings on the matter however, the hearings occurred shortly after his resignation and Harwit was not asked to testify. On January 30, the exhibition was cancelled and Harwit resigned as Director on May 2, 1995. Each version of the script was met with controversy, particularly from veterans groups. The exhibition was retitled "The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II" and the script underwent several major revisions through January 1995. A script for "The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War" was released for comment in January 1994. Organization Unarranged Summary This accession consists of records created and maintained by Martin Harwit, Director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 1987-1995, documenting plans to exhibit the "Enola Gay" and the resulting controversy.
#1995 ENOLA GAY EXHIBIT SERIES#
For a description of the record series of which these materials form a part, refer to the "Forms part of" above. After nearly two decades of restoration, the Enola Gay will be one of the highlights of the museum's new Udvar-Hazy Center, which is scheduled to open at Dulles International Airport on December 15, 2003.Object Details Notes Electronic List in accession file. This book tells the story of the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 program, and the combat operations of the B-29 type. The original, controversial exhibit script was changed, and the final exhibition attracted some 4 million visitors, testifying to the enduring interest in the aircraft and its mission. The aircraft was the primary artifact in an exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum from 1995 to 1998. The Japanese government, which had been preparing a bloody defense against an invasion, surrendered six days later. Three days later, another B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The Little Boy bomb exploded with the force of 12.5 kilotons of TNT, nearly destroying the city. The world entered the atomic age in August 1945, when the B-29 Superfortress nicknamed Enola Gay flew some 1,500 miles from the island of Tinian and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.