Daughter of Bockscar A-bomb pilot speaks in interview

Marilyn Howe, second daughter of the late Charles Sweeney who flew the Bockscar bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, western Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, speaks in an interview in Quincy, Massachusetts, on May 24, 2015. Howe and other relatives of Sweeney said he had asked Pope John XXIII privately in the early 1960s to offer support to Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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