as did, ironically, lieutenant commander mochitsura hashimoto.n after the senate armed services committee in 1999, senator john warner would not put the resolution to exonerate captain mcvay on the floor. senator rob smith was saying please take it to a vote. senator warner would always say , the navy decided this. the navy decided this case ago and keep deciding it. wroten't until hashimoto a letter to senator war -- senator warner saying, can't we take this terrible burden off captain? it wasn't his fault. can't we put this aside and free this man and his family from this burden of all these years? senator warner got this letter in the mail and he was so astonished that he called senator smith and said, you have to come see this. after receiving that letter, senator warner took the resolution to a vote and the exoneration of captain mcvay was finally passed. sara: that is just a small part of what's in the book. [laughter] we really wanted to get into all of these perspectives and tie the narrative together with first-hand experiences so that y

he actually wrote the forward man hashimoto's book i think it was written in 1953. there is a chapter devoted to the indianapolis and beach wrote the forward. we had spoken about that years before. then when i started getting involved in the mcvay exoneration i wrote to him again. he strongly supported the exoneration of mcvay. thank you. >> one more question. >> something will be held up there, i see. >> yes. that is commander hashimoto's account, not only of indianapolis but japanese submarine operations in world war ii. >> my question is following up on the records. did some of your research information, for instance the box of the sound of the prosecutor, does any of that end up in the archives? where it is that information end up? is that so that the next researcher has? it i am just kind of curious. does some of it end up as permanent records? here >> we have been talking with a few locations, actually. in addition to 170 hours of transcribed interviews, we have these records that we have collected. so there is a couple of sources. one of them is the indiana h

lieutenantnically, commander mochitsura hashimoto. warner would not put the resolution to exonerate captain mcvay on the floor. senator rob smith was saying please take it to a vote. senator warner would always say that ab has decided this. the navy decided this case ago and keep deciding it. warner got this letter in the mail and he was so astonished that he called senator smith and said you have to come see this. after receiving that letter, senator warner took the resolution to a vote and the waseration of captain mcvay finally passed. sara: that is just a small part. we really wanted to get into all of these perspectives and tie the narrative together with first-hand experiences so that you can see all of this as though you were living it. you get to know the survivors, you get to know bill tody, and you get to know the belcher family, the glen morgan family, you go on a journey with them as they experienced this terrible thing they went through in the water, but then how they fought back and claimed justice for their captain 50 y