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David Rosenthal: uncertainty

18 Feb 2021 Acquired The New York Times Company

“I guess he must have been in the plane. I don't know for sure. But pretty incredible, totally incredible.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
18 Feb 2021
Publisher
Acquired

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…Wait, he witnesses it? Like he was in the plane? I don't know. I guess he must have been in the plane. I don't know for sure. But pretty incredible, totally incredible. That's like the best of The Times during this period. Yeah, it's the best of The Times and simultaneously the worst of America, reporting on us. Neither of us are actual historians and dead, neither of us are passing judgment on obviously dropping the atomic bomb, but gosh, just the absolute last thing that any powerful nation wants to have to do, and for The Times to be the people there with literally the front row seat is just heavy.…

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