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- Kunhardt Film Foundation Presents An Interview Archive Original: The Silent Witness, a documentary about Tomiko Morimoto West's experience as a 13 year old girl in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, the day the first atomic bomb dropped. West, now a 91 year old woman, didn't talk about her memories from that time for many years, but now shares her story because she believes it will help people. West was working at a printing shop helping with the Japanese war effort when she saw a B-29 flying over the factory. When the nuclear bomb dropped she said there was no sound, just a white flash. She thought she was going to die in that instant, but believes the wall she was standing behind saved her life. She survived by escaping to a mountain cave. In the days that followed, she searched for her family who had all died as she witnessed the atrocities of nuclear war. West hesitantly says the experience made a better person out of her and that it gave her an appreciation for life.
- On March 7, 1965, John Lewis led a nonviolent march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as part of a cumulative effort to secure the right to vote for Black people. They were met with a show of force-lined troopers, baton in hand, tear gas. In years previous as a young activist, Lewis had become accustomed to this scene, but not once did he fight back, not once did he retaliate. Guided by the discipline and philosophy of nonviolence-to lead with love over hate-Lewis tells us, "We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters, if not, we will perish as fools." The senseless violence in Selma fixated the attention of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who, in an address to the nation, implicated Americans to confront and overcome our history of bigotry and discrimination-and soon thereafter passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Even so, embedded injustice prevails, and in the subsequent decades, Lewis continued to fight for justice and the right to vote for all Americans. Lewis wrote, "Faith is being so sure of what the spirit has whispered in your heart that your belief in its eventuality is unshakable. Nothing can make you doubt that what you have heard will become a reality. Even if you do not see it come to pass, you know without one doubt that it will be. That is faith." On the 55th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Lewis led his final march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, reminding us to keep this faith, resist silence, and speak up in the face of injustice.