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Madonna Elaine Thennes

Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

J. W. Funkhouse

Y-12 Plant

J. W. Funkhouse worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Edward Malnek

Tinian Island

Edward Malnek served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation.

Dorothy Vanderford

Los Alamos, NM

Dorothy Vanderford (1973- ) is the granddaughter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although Vanderford never met her grandfather, she knows the family narrative well and her father, Peter Oppenheimer, was a child during the Oppenheimer trial.