The Beginning of Narrative Journalism

Hersey suspected that there was far more to the official story concerning what had actually happened after the bombs detonated at Hiroshima and nagasaki. In 1946 nearly a year after the bombings Hersey was granted a two-week pass to visit Hiroshima so he could see and hear what hadactually happened He had a backstage pass. Did he get a lanyard? He better have he interviewed me made it fucking led Seriously, he interviewed 40 survivors as to what they'd experienced daring and since the bombings But after writing what amounted to a horror story Hersey did not submit the finished article to the government for censorship clearance Instead, he said fuck him and gave the story directly to the New Yorker who dedicated