Arthur Page's Hiroshima Statement Written for Harry Truman
Today marks the the 66th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. “Little Boy,” as it was nicknamed, killed 80,000 Japanese, and ushered in the nuclear era. President Harry Truman made that decision, and delivered his statement about the attack to the press the following morning. It was written by PR legend Arthur W. Page.
Page, who has an elite PR society and an institute named after him, was pressed in to government service four months earlier and was immediately briefed on the Manhattan Project.
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