White House Cover-Up: When Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162412/white-house-cover-when-truman-censored-first-hollywood-movie-atomic-bomb

One of the great tales of Hollywood “censorship” remains little known today, more than sixty-five years after it transpired. And who was right at the center of it? None other than President Harry S. Truman. He even got rid of the actor playing him in the MGM movie.

The 1947 MGM film, The Beginning or the End, deserves special review, however, as its filming overlapped with the suppression of the only film footage shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US military and the Japanese and other moves to hide key evidence of what happened there. Indeed, the MGM film emerged, after many revisions as a Hollywood version of the official Hiroshima narrative: the bomb was absolutely necessary to end the war and save American lives.