![]() ![]() ![]() 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 cancellation of the National Air and Space Museums (NASM) original Enola Gay exhibition in January 1995 may constitute the worst tragedy to befall the. After five official script revisions the display was radically reduced. 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. 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 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. Michael Heyman, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. "The institution has an obligation to be historically The Enola Gay Controversy The Enola Gay Controversy
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