This is smart-alecky stuff and uncalled for. On behalf of himself and his former crewmates, Beser made the following remarks to the HTNS wire service: Jacob Beser, the radar countermeasures officer on both atomic bombing missions in 1945, was asked to comment at the time of the Dayton controversy. This does not lessen the impact or importance of an occasion, but my definition of a laugh is a moment of escape… If I am guilty of any misjudgment whatsoever, I believe it’s in the time element involved and not the character of the material.” “The antidote for hundreds of years of tragic events has been humor, the ability to laugh at serious situations. The show continues to 2 p.m., and the only reason I didn’t take him off right then (in the noon hour) was because I didn’t have disc jockey to fill in for him.”ĭayton awkwardly tried to defend his stunt-which had already made headlines across the country (and, no doubt, in Japan, too)-by saying he was trying to alleviate the sadness of his listeners during a difficult time (an odd explanation given that his audience was made up of teenagers on summer vacation who just wanted to listen to Top 40 hits):
Walter Schwartz, general manager of the station, told the press of his immediate reaction:
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