who said my god what have we done
Robert A. Lewis In 1955, Lewis appeared on the television show This is Your Life, in an episode not without controversy. The show had as its guest Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, who had been living in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing and survived the explosion, as recounted in John Hersey's 1946 book Hiroshima. Tanimoto had traveled to the United States with the Hiroshima Maidens to get reconstructive surgery for them, and while there was the subject of the May 11 episode of This Is Your Life.[11] After some acquaintances were introduced and interviewed, a surprise for Tanimoto was meeting Lewis — on live television broadcast to a nationwide audience — representing the crew of the aircraft that had so dramatically changed his life.[12] Contemporary reaction to the episode was mixed, ranging from "one of [the] best"[11] to a "new low in poor taste."[13] Lewis described the Enola Gay's flight and the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. When asked by host Ralph Edwards if he remembered his reaction on that fateful day, he remarked, "I wrote down later, 'My God, what have we done?' "[14]