Oppenheimer: What We Realized The Movie Leaves Out

Oppenheimer: What We Realized The Movie Leaves Out

Aimee Heidelberg - August 13, 2023

 

Oppenheimer: What We Realized The Movie Leaves Out
View from Grizzly Peak of the Berkeley Hills. trmarch (2011, CC 2.0).

No, Seriously. Oppenheimer was a Really Bad Date

Oppenheimer’s dating life was full of mishaps. The San Francisco Examiner ran an article on 14 February 1934 about one particular date that must have left the poor girl with a feeling of what just happened? He had been on a date with a Berkely woman. The pair went up to Grizzly Peak in the Berkely Hills to “sightsee” from their car. During the date, Oppenheimer told her he was going for a walk. A police officer found the woman asleep in the car, alone. He had gone home and crawled into bed. He left his date on the hill, alone, waiting for him to return. As he told police, once they found him in his room, “I am subject to doing eccentric things, although I don’t believe I ever did this before.” While he apologized for his erratic behavior, there was probably no “next date.”

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