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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| Ohioan who piloted plane that dropped the first A-bomb during World War II dies. |
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By Bill Cohen - November 1, 2007 |
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The Ohio man who piloted the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima in 1945 is dead. Paul Tibbetts Jr. died in Columbus today at the age of 92. As commander of the Enola Gay, a B-29, Colonel Tibbets dropped a bomb that killed at least a hundred thousand Japanese, most of them civilians. In an interview with Ohio Public Radio's Bill Cohen, Tibbets' long time friend and manager, Gerry Newhouse, says Tibbets knew that using the bomb for the first time was a controversial decision -- especially in hindsight -- and Tibbets wanted to downplay that after his death.
Paul Tibbets retired from the Air Force as a Brigadier General in 1966 and moved to Columbus with his wife in the 1970's to become president of an executive jet-taxi company. He retired from that job in 1985. |
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Gerry Newhouse wtih Bill Cohen (1:24) 
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