Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct!

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From: Peter Desnoyers
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:29

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steve@geosys.co.uk (Steve Hawtin) writes:
>I must say I thought the running order of the BBC series was a
>touch odd it did tend to spend a long time talking about
>developments in the US, then go on to discuss earlier
>devlopments in the UK in a "separate" section.  Has all the
>stuff about Alan Turing's vital contribution via Bletchley Park
>and his visit to the US in 1941 (?) been removed?

Nope - it was still there when I saw it last Monday on WGBH. They might
have put it after chronologically later work because no one found out
about it until 1970 or so due to "national security reasons".

				Peter Desnoyers
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