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Kathleen Hitchcock

ChildHanford, WA

Displaced
Bruggerman Ranch. Listen to Kathleen Hitchcock’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

White Bluffs, Washington, located a few miles upriver from Hanford and considered one of the prettiest towns on the Columbia River, was yet another casualty of the 1943 government invasion. Kathleen Hitchcock was the daughter of Tom and Jane O'Larey, owners the local newspaper, "The White Bluffs Spokesman."

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