Hiroshima Memorial with Howard Zinn

John Hersey’s Hiroshima
Dramatic Reading
Starring Tyne Daly, Ruby Dee, Roscoe Lee Brown, Daniel Benzali, Esther K. Chae, Michael Chinyamurindi, Tony Plana, Jeanne Sakata, Chris Toshima and John Valentine

Produced in 2003

The Pacifica Radio Archives’ recording of John Hersey’s journalistic masterpiece “Hiroshima” received a National Federation of Community Broadcasters Special Merit Award in the Radio Drama category.

But first we begin with an excerpt of a Boston University speech by Howard Zinn from November 11th, 2009 on American Holy Wars. In this talk, Zinn scours the American war record in search of a good war or justifiable war.


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