The scaled-down display he said will not tell "the full story" of the atomic bomb, including the horrors of nuclear war as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Musil, director of policy and programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-nuclear group based in Washington, criticized the Smithsonian decision. There was a great deal of contoversary about this exhibit.
A partially restored Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, was on exhibit. An exhibit that many felt portrayed the Japanese as victims of American aggression. Enola Gay Exhibit, First Draft - Final Draft. Detweiler said the American Legion will urge Congress to go ahead with the hearings. Enola Gay Exhibit 1995 Enola Gay Exhibit 1995 In April of 1995, I visited the National Air and Space Museum in Washingotn, D.C. Many of the Committee members fought bitterly any effort by the Smithsonian to inject some balance into the 1995 exhibit of the Enola Gay fuselage. Blute is a member of that committee, which has jurisdiction over the Smithsonian Institution, supported chiefly by federal money. Spokesman Rob Gray said the congressman would confer with the chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee before deciding whether to continue to press for hearings on the process by which the exhibit was created. Heyman "has made a sound decision" in scuttling an exhibition he called a "politically correct diatribe." Enola Gay exhibition as it was finally mounted in 1995 were upset by many things. December 1995: The Journal of American History publishes articles relating the larger consequences of the Enola Gay controversy. Peter Blute, the Massachusetts Republican who helped lead the congressional call for Mr. We have found no way to exhibit the Enola Gay and satisfy everyone. the entire first draft of the Enola Gay exhibit with comments from Nobile and Barton Bernstein. No glorification, no nonsense that they were trying to do before." Burr Bennett, a member of a group of B-29 veterans petitioning for what it calls "proper display of the Enola Gay" said the simpler display is "what we've been asking for all along. Until the doors open and we see the exhibit we're taking a wait-and-see attitude." Jack Giese, spokesman for the Air Force Association, a group of 180,000 members, said "we are encouraged but we are extremely cautious.