us on facebook at c-span/history. >> -- people be hitting people in the head. >> i don't think any other people in america could take this kind of stuff. drive anybody into being a revolutionary. what do think about the police? >> -- [indiscernible] like, pick me up because i wasn't in school. man, what are you are going to do to me? -- [indiscernible] i said -- [indiscernible] >> the question always comes when you live in a community that is suppressed and people are living like we have to live in the black community, you know, how are you going to handle all these problems? an awareness and a need for change in this community.

washington's third police district. there is contrast here. from embassy road to devastated 14th street, a quarter of violent in the spring rides of 1968. an average recouping 40 robberies, 16 aggravated assault , and high incidents of rape, homicide, and arson. with drug abuse resource of these crimes, 80 addicks this year will die from overdose. by fall of 1968, a mayor's committee had chose the site for a new opportunity. with high hopes and more than $1 million, the plan was this: to the road suspicion and fear among police and the people, find ways of helping the police was be a part of the community again. but there were those in the third district whom the experiment was dangerously flawed.

>> the overall goal of the project is to try to get at what we recognize is now a pervasive discharge between the citizens and the police. when you talk about control, it falls short of a total citizen control of the precinct. and there was no -- there was never any provision in the grant or in the plan for that sort of control. that is absolute control. community seelack the police as enemies. and i remind everybody here that i might very well be shot as i walk out of that door if i happen to anger some white policeman heard i am very much aware of that, and every black person is. >> everybody and his mother knows that the police is the number one problem in america. if you all don't want to deal with that, that is your problem. but at least let me have a say so.

i don't think a lot of us understand that. maybe we are happy that the mayor asked us to come here. i am not. i'm saying that my issue is how do you get the committee -- [indiscernible] i am not concerned about what happens to marion barry. more than likely, i can deal with the police. but i am talking about what can we do for the 600,000 black people out here who do have a problem with the police? >> so, we just have to try to figure out a way to make sure when you get as old as i am or even before that that you don't have to live in those kind of conditions. we don't have to see the drug addicts and the dope. so i think that is what we are talking about. how do you take it you like this and make sure he grows up to be a man. that he can stand tall, he can get the cat of advantages and opportunities that white people get. that means we have to do something to get some control for our community.

how are you doing, sir? about what is happening in our community, right? and i think we can do that. don't you think so? >> right on. in august, 1945, 70 years ago, american forces dropped two atomic bombs over japan. one in hero seema and the -- hiroshima and the other in nagasaki. he served as an assistant to project director. mr. furman recalls going behind enemy lines to determine nazi germany's atomic capabilities. he also discusses accompanied the atomic bomb before it was sent to japan. robert fuhrman died in october of 2008 at age 93. this 90 minute oral history is

from the voices of the manhattan project, created by the atomic heritage foundation and the los the war came along , i was drafted -- i was asked to join. attendantas a second -- second lieutenant. the draft occurred, and we hadn't processed all the people from several states through fort dix. got them their uniforms and sent them off to training camps. it wasn't long before i got transferred to washington. up -- i was employed by the same people who eventually had