Video: 'American Experience Truman 1' (Aug. 8, 1945, at 2:11:47)

(Wednesday, August 8, 1945, 10:45 a.m. EWT; during World War II) — Secretary of War Henry Stimson showed President Harry S. Truman aerial photographs of Hiroshima following Monday’s atomic bombing. Truman, who had by now returned to the White House from the Potsdam Conference in Germany, told Stimson, “This places a terrible responsibility upon myself and upon the War Department.”

Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 24-The Bomb(February–September 1945)' (Aug. 8, 1945, at 44:21)