Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Paul Tibbets: Hiroshima Countdown with Studs Terkel



 
Hiroshima Countdown
 An Oral History Interview with Cmdr. Paul Tibbets. 1985. 
 
Paul Tibbets dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I met him thirty-nine years later in Columbus Ohio where he ran the first corporate air charter company in the United States. After the “Good War”, Tibbets’ fame comprised cache and notoriety and business was prosperous

I’d conduced a telephone interview with Tibbets the previous year - in 1983 - for a 12-hour marathon radio production exploring Hiroshima on New York City Pacifica Foundation radio station, WBAI. I said at the beginning of this memoir that I was born in the shadow of the Holocaust and Hiroshima. This radio program was my chance to get to the heart of the matter. 
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