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 only in relation to the annual French Quarter Festival, as “forced secrecy” surrounded the true reason: Winning the top, and only, film award from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) – largest group of its kind – for the year’s best documentary or TV program, Atomic Cover-up (which I wrote and directed). It was presented Friday night at their annual conference, typically attended by 1500 or more folks.
Previous winners, going back decades, included many Oscar/Emmy winners and nominees, several by Ken Burns, and so forth. Of course, this is especially gratifying since I have, broadly speaking, been working on it since June 1982. But that’s another story. You might call it The Parts Left Out of Oppenheimer.
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