The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
THE FRIENDS OF THE A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd
                        
Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 7 p.m.

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Preview of  David Grubin’s acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary.  The film seeks to understand why Fifties America turned against the brilliant physicist who headed the Manhattan Project’s top-secret laboratory in Los Alamos.  The documentary dramatically traces Oppenheimer’s trajectory from one of the leading minds in the scientific world to a suspected Communist sympathizer during the dark years of McCarthyism.

DISCUSSION: DAVID GRUBIN, MARTIN SHERWIN, FRED SANDER, & RICHARD GOTTLIEB

Refreshments will follow the program.

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