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No source. The sources at the bottom (well, those that work) don’t include the word “chair” anywhere.
On no, which ones aren’t working? Citing my sources and the integrity of my work is very important to me. You can find a video of it here: https://youtu.be/gSD0IfSfrW4
Footage at 16:50
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/63/announcement-dropping-atomic-bomb-hiroshima
https://atomicarchive.com/history/hiroshima-nagasaki/index.html
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/berlin-airlift
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/collection/cold-war-timeline
Thank you for bringing it to my attention! I will also be updating my sources. I will look at the others you listed now!
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/decision-to-drop-atomic-bomb
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. Berlin Airlift Lesson Plan.
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/lesson-plans/berlin-airlift
Cold War International History Project
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-international-history-project
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/atomic-bombing/index.html
Can add
t=16m50sto the link to have it load on the spot:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSD0IfSfrW4&t=16m50s
The action looks less intense than the all-caps description indicates. Still marked this to check out later. Suggest backing up sources at archive.today, ghostarchive, and web.archive.org and providing both links so that you do not run into this issue later.
That’s super helpful—thank you! I just added the timestamp link so it goes straight to the moment. And good call on backing it up, I’ll archive the footage on web.archive and ghostarchive just in case. Appreciate you looking out for long-term integrity. This post means a lot to me.
More meant all those citation links could be archived so that link rot won’t have you having to replace dead links in the future. Don’t know that those archive youtube, but if you use a downloaded the video could be added to the regular archive.org if it’s not already there. Can also upload a copy of the e-book/PDF/whateverformats as a backup.
Thank you, I really appreciate the heads-up.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That footage could very well just be of Stalin pushing a chair out of the way for photos, or something like that, quite different from what you wrote.
I appreciate your opinion and I encourage everyone to watch and have their own perceptions!
Found the picture
Thank you for fixing the link you cited. I’ve seen that photo many times—it’s widely circulated. But it’s not the same as the footage. The photo doesn’t capture the actual interaction or the chair movement. That’s why I cited the video, not just a still image. It’s a different kind of evidence—and it speaks for itself.
No file by this name exists.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: