In Washington DC we commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the same time the Japanese do in Japan, so our main event is on August 5th rather than 6th -- the speakout/candle float at the Washington Momument.
1998 Hiroshima Nagasaki Schedule for National Capital Area
Tuesday, August 4, 6-8PM, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 10th and G NW, Reception for Photo Exhibit "Nuclear Weapons and the Twentieth Century" with special
guests including Atom Bomb Survivors, Atomic Veterans, Down Winders and other radiation victims. Sponsored by Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee and Martin Luther King, Jr, Public Library.
* KEY EVENT: Wednesday, August 5, 6-9 PM, Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, 1998 Hiroshima Commemoration. A-Bomb survivors, music, Childrens Program, Candlelantern float.
Saturday, August 8, 7-9:30 PM Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street NW. "Nuclear Abolition and Human Survival" Professor Shingo Shibata, Hiroshima University, Hibakusha (A-Bomb Survivors), Louise Franklin-Ramirez
* KEY EVENT: 9:45-10:30 PM, Lafayette Square (Peace Park) Candlelight Vigil to commemorate Nagasaki Bombing.
Information: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital
Area phone 1-703-369-7427; fax 1-703-392-5045;
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AND/OR
Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil
Proposition One Committee -
PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038
202-462-0757 - 265-5389 (fax)
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