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Look Magazine: “The Shocking Killing of Approved Killing in Mississippi”
The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi
“This article is the infamous confession of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant to the kidnapping and killing of Emmett Till. Reporter William Bradford Huie reportedly paid the men $4000 for their story. It appeared in Look 20 (24 January 1956): 46–50. Each section is divided and numbered with the original pagination.”
The Murder of Emmett Till
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“The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs”
The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs
“On August 9, 1945, the B-29 bomber “Bockscar” sliced through the clouds above the Japanese city of Nagasaki and unleashed a 22-kiloton plutonium bomb known as “Fat Man.” The blinding white light that followed was sickeningly familiar to Tsutomu Yamaguchi, an engineer who just three days before had been severely injured in the atomic attack at Hiroshima. Seventy years later, learn the story of the man who endured two separate nuclear blasts and lived to tell the tale.”
TED Talk: Japanese Internment Camps
Why I love a country that once betrayed me | George Takei
When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a “security” measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy.
60 Minutes Interview withe the Rosenberg Children
The Brothers Rosenberg
“Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s sons tell Anderson Cooper how it felt to be the children of the infamous spies, in a story that sheds new light on a central event of the Cold War”
Last Japanese Soldier Surrenders
Watch Declassified Nuclear Bomb Tests Online
“The U.S. government conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear bomb tests before the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 outlawed detonation of the big bombs in space, underwater or in the atmosphere.” To read more go to the Smithsonian
WWII Propaganda
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WWII Propaganda
Private Snafu – Spies | 1943 | US Army Animated Training Film