CSPAN3 Reel America A Thousand Cranes - The Children Of Hiroshima - 1962 July 12, 2024
After the bomb fell on 1945, the august 6, people folded paper cranes. Today in hiroshima, men, women and children are still folding paper cranes. Especially children. They are still suffering from radiation effects of the bomb. What is it like to be a child in hiroshima so many years after the war . These children look like children anywhere, but the park they are playing in is called the peace park, and the monument behind them is the cemetery dedicated to the 70,000 people known to have died from the bomb. Although estimates go as high as 200,000 or more. On a hot summer morning, much like ...