Ghosts

On the Media

• Episode: Ghosts
• Website: On the Media
• Feed URL: http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia
• Duration: 00:51:08
• Published: 2016-05-20 06:00

Seventy-one years after the bombing, President Obama is set to be first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, raising questions that many are keen to avoid. Plus, revisiting a notorious murder that the press got wrong; the long reach of a WWII slogan; and attempts in Ukraine to whitewash the nation's history. A special hour on memory, both historical and personal, and how what we remember shapes our world.