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Hiroshima news (1:30)


Listen November 1, 2007 permalink

There are two news events today relating to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. General Paul Tibbets, the American pilot who flew the Enola Gay on that mission to Hiroshima, has died at the age of 92. And Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the Japanese government must pay compensation to survivors of the atomic bomb blast who live outside Japan. Anchor Marco Werman has details.

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr (1915-2007)Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr (1915-2007)


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