Video: 'United Nations Open Conference As San Francisco (1945)'
(Wednesday, April 25, 1945, Truman delivers address at 4:35 p.m. PWT; during World War II) — Delegates from some 50 countries gathered in San Francisco today to organize the United Nations. Continue reading Conference to form United Nations meets in San Francisco 80 years ago this hour (Apr 25 1945)
Video: 'The World At War Episode 24 HD - The Bomb (February – September 1945)' (Apr. 25, 1945, at 9:50)
(Wednesday, April 25, 1945, 12 noon EWT; during World War II) — U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson briefed President Harry Truman today about the possibility of an atomic weapon, outlined the history and status of the program and predicted that “within four months we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history” (click here for a clip of Apr. 24-25, 1945, on “American Experience: Truman” at 1:40:57). Continue reading Stimson briefs Truman on ‘most terrible weapon ever known’ 80 years ago this hour (Apr 25 1945)
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (U.S. and Soviet troops link up at 51:49)
(Wednesday, April 25, 1945, 4:40 p.m. Central European Summer Time; on the Western Front and Eastern Front during World War II) — The Soviets, advancing from the East, and the Americans, advancing from the West, met today at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany’s defenses. Continue reading U.S. and Soviet troops link up, cutting Nazi Germany in two 80 years ago this hour (Apr 25 1945)
