letter to editor – NY Times 8-3-1955
The above Word document comprises the text of a letter to editor about the bombing of Hiroshima that was published in The New York Times of August 3, 1955 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the booming.
The signers were Clarence E. Pickett, Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence, Lewis Mumford, Pitirim A. Sorokin, W. Harold Row, A. Philip Randolph, Orie O. Miller, Howard Thurman, Henry J. Cadbury, A. J. Muste, A. H. Bainton, and Rabbi Isidor B. Hoffman.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
November 2024
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See also my post:
Dreiser on the Winter War
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