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Both Americans and the Japanese were meant to have the opportunity to see the exhibit and to try to understand the complex. To the Smithsonian, the Enola Gay was instrumental in events that changed our world. The tone of this article is set at the beginning when the author characterizes the January 1995 cancellation of the original Enola Gay exhibition at the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum as possibly the greatest tragedy to befall the public presentation of history in many years. Enola Gay became the center of a controversy at the Smithsonian. Number of pages : 28 Page numbers : 1036-1063. The fourth section was intended to reveal the horrible destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after they were bombed, and the final section of the exhibition was scheduled to discuss the problems of nuclear weapons and the arms race that followed the war. The Smithsonian, who planned an exhibit that covered a lot of ground and included contentions that were controversial, particularly the contention that a US. Infobox Aircraft name Enola Gay type Bomber manufacturer Boeing B 29 Superfortress. The third was to focus on the handling of the bomb from the secret factories to the loading onto the plane. The next would explain the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb. The first section was to deal with Japanese invasions and the attack on Pearl Harbor. The exhibition was supposed to contain five controversial narrative sections.
ENOLA GAY SMITHSONIAN CONTROEVRSY ARCHIVE
This dispute and various other events led to the controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit and its eventual cancellation. The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay From the Air Force Association’s Enola Gay Controversy archive collection Online at The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Chronology of the Controversy 1993-1995 Early 1993. Mike Fetters, a spokesman for the National Air and Space Museum, where the Enola Gay will be exhibited. The question was whether the Smithsonian Institution's exhibition of Enola Gay was non-biased, or if, instead, it was intended as an instrument of propaganda. Smithsonian officials said they always welcomed comments on how they would present history. Those who opposed the exhibit, however, were concerned with the credibility and the message it was trying to send. The Smithsonian wanted to make Americans and those who saw the exhibit reevaluate their understanding of World War II. The controversy surrounding the Enola Gay exhibit stems from disagreements between the Smithsonian, historians, members of Congress, veterans, and those who were there for the event that shook the world. A script was written to point out the different phases that took place before the decision to drop the bomb and the aftermath of that decision. Exhibition planners knew early on how explosive their subject matter would be. Neufeld said that Harwit seized on the Enola Gay as an instrument of that transformation. Michael Heyman, Secretary of the Smithsonian, had a vision of creating an exhibit that would inspire people to have more profound discussions about the atom bomb. Appointed by then Smithsonian Secretary Robert McCormick Adams in 1987, museum director Martin Harwit, an astrophysicist, had a mandate to revamp that heritage. In 1995, the Enola Gay exhibit was intended to open for the 50th anniversary of the day the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Japan.