CSPAN3 Reel America A Thousand Cranes - The Children Of Hiroshima - 1962 July 12, 2024
After the bomb fell on a hiroshima, august 6, 1945, the people folded paper cranes. Today in hiroshima, men, women, and children are still folding paper cranes. Especially children. For they are still suffering from radiation effects of the bomb. Whats it like to be a child in hiroshima so many years after the war . These children look like children anywhere. The park is called the peace park, and the monument behind them is the center dedicated to the 70,000 people known to have died from the bomb. Although estimates go as high as 200,000 or more. It was 8 15 on a hot summer morning much like...