Name/Title
Guernica! 36 Years Later: A first-hand account of the Nazi atrocityEntry/Object ID
2002.005.288Description
Congressional Record; Proceedings and Debates of the 93rd Congress, First Session; Volume 119, Number 56; official proceedings of Congress on April 10, 1973; introduction by Senator Frank Church; he talks about the bombing of Guernica and the lasting effects it had; he quotes George Le Steer's "The Tree of Gerunica"; Pedro de Beitia's "Guernica: I Was There" is printed in full in this record; he presents his first hand account of the bombing and rejects the conspiracy thatt Gernika was destroyed by its own people; he states that Picasso was right in his depiction of the destruction of the city; the man who created the conspiracy theory, Jeffrey Hart only had one source which was a book published under Franco's ministry