Abstract
In late July 1993, the museum had reached tentative agreement on how the Enola Gay should be exhibited. The planning document tried to spell that out in sixteen double-spaced pages. But those pages conjured up different expectations in each of us—Bob Adams, Monroe Hatch, the curators, and myself, to say nothing of the Japanese.
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Harwit, M. (1996). The Script. In: An Exhibit Denied. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7905-8_17
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