(15 Dec 2003)

1. Exterior of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex, Chantilly, Virginia
2. Interior of new museum's new annex, showing Enola Gay (R on tail fin)
3. Wide shot of podium with Jack Daily, museum director
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) General J.R. Jack Dailey, Director of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum:
"So this ia very big day for us, the thing about today is, this is what this place is all about, this is the official opening to the public of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy centre . It is my very great pleasure to welcome you all here today."
5. Crowd entering museum
6. Wide shot of annex with planes on ceiling
7. Enola Gay cockpit
8. Various of Japanese survivor of Hiroshima atomic explosion, Sunao Tsboi
9. Wide shot of Enola Gay
10. Close up of cockpit, showing Enola Gay name then pan along fuselage
11. Survivor of Hiroshima atomic explosion, Sunao Tsboi, bows head and wipes eyes, looks emotional
12. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Dr. Terumi Tanaka, Secretary General, Hidankyo Nagasaki Hibakusha (A-bomb survivor)
"I'm looking at this plane realizing that this is the plane that killed so many of my friends, so many of my family members. But I have to say, rather than feelings of anger, I think feelings of sadness are more prevalent right now in my mind."
13. Enola Gay
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dwight Neill, former US serviceman:
"The B-29 (aircraft) that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortened the World War II by at least a year, maybe more and probably saved up to a million lives, if we'd tried to invade Japan."
15. Mid shot demonstrators in front of Enola Gay exhibit holding signs and as one reads a statement, tilt up to Enola Gay
16. Demonstrators holding signs as police push them back away from exhibit
17. Zoom out from red liquid (thrown at Enola Gay exhibit by demonstrators to represent blood) on floor to police
18. Rack focus from workers cleaning red liquid to sign in front of Enola Gay exhibit

STORYLINE:

Hundreds of people showed up on Monday for the opening day of the Smithsonian Institution's new Air and Space Museum centre in Chantilly, Virginia.

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is a giant hangar converted to display aircraft and aviation artifacts, including the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb used in anger, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

Among the centre's first guests were seven survivors of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in the Second World War, present to see the plane and express their anti-atomic views.

Dr. Terumi Tanaka, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said he was saddened rather than angered by viewing the aircraft, which "killed so many of my friends, so many of my family members."

The survivors said their main complaint was that no information on the effects of the bomb were not included in the display.

The death toll in Hiroshima from the Enola Gay bombing grew to around 140,000 by the end of 1945, while some 70,000 people had died by then in Nagasaki from the second atomic attack, according to U.N. reports.

Many died lingering deaths well after the bombs were dropped - killed by radiation poisoning.

A small group of demonstrators shouted briefly near the Enola Gay exhibit after a red liquid representing blood was spilled on the floor near the plane's nose gear.

Security officers moved in quickly to restore order, and maintenance workers cleaned up the spill.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said that airport police arrested two men in connection with the incident.




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