American Experience- “The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer”
8:00pm
This biography presents a revealing portrait of one of the most important scientists of the 20th century, who is also known as “the father of the atomic bomb”. Interweaving interviews with family members and scholars and dramatic recreations (with David Strathairn as Oppenheimer), the program takes a look at his involvement in international physics and top-secret missions, to his eventual fall in the wake of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
