Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Luzell Johnson

Cement FinisherHanford, WA

African-AmericanManhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Hanford Listen to Luzell Johnson’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Luzell Johnson left a factory job in Alabama for a much higher-paying one as a cement finisher at Hanford. His wife later joined him, and they bought a house in Hanford; like many Hanford workers, Johnson settled in the area after the war.

Related Profiles

L. E. Campbell

Hanford, WA

William B. Cutler

Y-12 Plant

William Cutler worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Kathleen Hitchcock

Hanford, WA

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.

Daniel E. Hennessey

Los Alamos, NM