The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights - Steve Sheinkin

[@pkT3RROR]

My sister in law is a park ranger at the Port Chicago memorial. She says ALOT of folks don't know this story. I'm also reading the Robert Allen book atm. The whole story is nuts and very sad. I'm just really surprised that it's not well known. One of the largest home front war time disasters.

[@juliewoods6534]

The only legal issue in the whole case is, Did the defendants willfully disobey a lawful order during wartime? The unequivocal answer is yes.

[@ThePortChicagoWitness]

No, the real issue is, What really happened and why hasn't the full story been told, including the well-documented link to the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb.

[@juliewoods6534]

@@ThePortChicagoWitness I have not heard of any connection between the Port Chicago disaster and the A bomb. Please enlighten me. Where can I find any information about it?

[@juliewoods6534]

I read the book about the Port Chicago Munity. The disgusting institution of segregation notwithstanding, those sailors were not asked to do anything more dangerous that those marines invading those Japanese held islands that desperately needed the admonition those mutinous sailors refused to load.

[@3RDNBZ]

You racist ass Karen biiaa#$! . . . You have no idea what you're talking about. If you only knew the real truth. Our own government sacrificed these 321 men's lives to test the first nuclear explosion in history. There's so much proof that that is exactly what happened. Do you know what the numbers 321 represent to them? It represents the triangle or the trinity. And if you don't know what the Trinity means at this time in world war II then you should just keep your mouth quiet. Because after this explosion in Port Chicago, almost immediately everything changed in the Manhattan project. Exactly one year later is when the trinity test supposedly ushered in the atomic age in the desert of New Mexico. Do you think that the United States with the responsibility of detonating the first atomic bomb in history over Hiroshima would settle for testing what was supposed to kill thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of people on grains of sand? Hell no, they needed to test it on people and who better than 300 and something black people that they they considered disposable! There's so much other proof that that's exactly what happened I'm not going to waste any more time trying to explain that person like you who would never believe anything anyway. So bye-bye racist Karen, go vote for Trump.

[@123onajet]

​@@3RDNBZthe majority of the scientists of the Manhattan project were jewish. Nagasaki had the biggest population of christians and Catholics in the orient. The larger 'fatman' bomb was dropped on Nagasaki specifically. Why? Throughout history jews have killed many christians and Catholics and I'm betting they played a part in the port Chicago disaster as well

[@ShutterSpeedGaming]

Huh 🤔 what is that story called?

[@trinimami67]

Has anything been done to help them get exonerated?

[@chriso3580]

It seems like the issue has been dropped ... and Obama did deal with the issue of the memorial in 2009 so it is safe to say he thought about it. Check out Wikipedia ... Port Chicago Disaster.

[@darrylpowell8247]

@@chriso3580 , there were 2 living. 1 has been pardoned. Another refused the pardon. The others passed away, but paperwork were put in for posthumous pardons for everyone involved. Haven't found any outcome pieces on whether or not that happened.

[@ericadowning4053]

Does anyone know the source for this video? Like how to cite it

[@paulcrossgrove5353]

Steve Sheinkin, author.

[@karlnicholls15]

find me on face book, I have the full CBS report... the soldiers were forced to race each other for bets.. do you understand ????

[@paulcrossgrove5353]

Too many useless memorials and not enough truth about the courts marshals.

[@enniswhalen2428]

P C - Our "wonderful" U.S. Navy would rather NOT talk about it. . . but don't forget to stand for the national anthem.

[@ThePortChicagoWitness]

What do you mean? What is the truth? (I know, but do you?)

[@ThePortChicagoWitness]

For example, the memo authorizing the court martial was issued on July 14th, three days before the explosion and weeks before the "work stoppage". Salvage divers found the hull of the Quinault Victory and there was a big hole in it. That's the empty ship.m, actually the one in the photo. The E A Bryan, the ship that was loaded, was obliterated.

[@karlnicholls15]

find me on face book, I have the full CBS report... the soldiers were forced to race each other for bets.. do you understand ????

[@lisafister]

I can’t find you on fb. I would like a copy of the full CBS report. @karlnicholls

[@karlnicholls15]

@@lisafister wow you took your time.. i dont know if i can even find it now but i dont think i removed it... Email me.. [e-mail]

[@ThePortChicagoWitness]

Few people are aware of the documented link to the Manhattan Project. Captain William S Parsons, one of two Associate Directors of Los Alamos Laboratory, was second in command to J. Robert Oppenheimer. As head of the Ordnance Division (the team responsible for actually producing, testing and delivering the bombs), Parsons led a team of Manhattan Project scientist and engineers to the site, where they combed the wreckage, gathering data on the "effects of the detonation". In 1946, Parsons served as Technical Director in Operation Crossroads, the test of atomic bombs against naval ships in the Marshall Islands. He went on to become the first "atomic admiral." In a 1948 speech to the Naval War College, Parsons acknowledged that the data from Port Chicago provided the first realistic estimates of the blast damages. The information was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. The Port Chicago explosion is part of nuclear history. And there is much more to the story. For more info, start here www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/manhattan-project/port-chicago.html