Janice Witt Purkey

ChildOak Ridge, TN

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran

Janice Witt Purkey was the daughter of William Augustus Witt, an Army soldier stationed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The family lived inside a guarded complex as Purkey attended elementary school, but did not know of the details of the project until after the bomb was dropped.

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