Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Friday afternoon, President Biden posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to my old friend Joe Galloway. No one could accuse veteran war reporter Galloway of being...
Christmas Here – and in Nagasaki, 1945
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Since this is Timmy/Zimmy week here, and elsewhere, let’s just start with ecumenical Bob’s wildest Christmas song, “Must Be Santa.” Then, in case you missed the return of Darlene...
He Took the Only Photos in Hiroshima on August 6
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. ~ Charles Dickens Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in...
Trinity and the Parts Left Out of Oppenheimer
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s substack Between Rock and a Hard Place. Every year at this time I trace the final days leading to the first use of the atomic bomb against two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August 1945. In this way the fateful, and...
My ‘Countdown to Hiroshima’ Begins – as First A-BombTest at Trinity Is Readied
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Every year at this time I trace the final days leading up to the first (and so far only) use of the atomic bomb against cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August...
Nolan’s Oppenheimer Emerged One Year Ago: But What About First A-Bomb Movie?
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s substack Between Rock and a Hard Place. On this weekend exactly one year ago, I was invited with a few dozen others to the first screening in New York City of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie Oppenheimer. Nolan sat on a...
Massacres, Then and Now
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. On this holiday Monday: First, if you missed yesterday’s post, here are 15 varied songs marking the day. Next: My “Memorial Day Massacre,” which came out over PBS one year ago,...
Songs for Memorial Day
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Fairly eclectic group, but here goes: John Prine unveils “Sam Stone” in very early TV appearance. A little-known early Joni Mitchell song, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” performed by...
Student Sit-ins and Wild in the Streets: My Own Story, Back in 1968
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Was great to see CNN’s Dana Bash trending on Twitter yesterday. Uh, what? Well, it transpired because thousands were bashing her (ahem) after she compared threats to Jews in the...
‘To Hear and Feel the Horror’
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Just back from New Orleans last night. After many trips from about 2001-2009, this was our first visit to a beloved city in quite awhile. I had posted last week about the trip but...
