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Hanford

Oral History
John D. Smith
April 6, 2023
Tell us your name. My name is John Smith. J-O-H-N, S-M-I-T-H. Tell us where you studied. Okay, I attended University of Washington and Ohio State. I’m a licensed professional engineer in mechanical engineering in the state of Washington. And I went to work for the General Electric Company in April of 1947. And at the […]
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Tom Foulds’s Interview
June 14, 2019
Trisha Pritikin: Okay. It is January 15th, 2019, and we are in Lynnwood, Washington. I am interviewing Tom Foulds. Tom, would you please spell your name?  Tom Foulds: Yeah. Tom T-o-m, Foulds F as in Frank, o-u-l-d-s. Pritikin: Okay. Thank you very much. Now, Tom I’m going to ask you a set of questions, but feel free to add something […]
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Richard Eymann’s Interview
June 11, 2019
Karen Dorn Steele: Our second interview is with Richard Eymann, Spokane attorney and lead trial attorney for the Hanford downwinders. Trisha Pritikin: Okay. We are interviewing Richard Eymann. It is April 29, 2019. We are in Spokane, Washington at the Patsy Clark Mansion. Dick—may I call you Dick? Dick Eymann: Dick or Richard is fine. […]
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Bob Cook’s Interview
June 10, 2019
Karen Dorn Steele: It’s April 29, 2019. Our first interview is with F. Robert Cook, a retired Nuclear Regulatory Commission overseer at Hanford Reservation. First, why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background—where you grew up and something about your early education? Bob Cook: I was born in 1939 in St. Louis City. We lived in […]
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Collene Dunbar’s Interview
May 28, 2019
Cynthia Kelly: Okay, why don’t we start by having you tell us your name and spelling it? Collene Dunbar: My name is Collene Dunbar, C-O-L-L-E-N-E, and it’s pronounced Coll-ene. Jeffrey Nalezny: And your last name is spelled? Dunbar: D-U-N-B-A-R. Nalezny: Thank you. Kelly: Great! Thank you very much. Now we’re here to talk to about […]
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Carol Roberts’s Interview
Cynthia Kelly: Start by telling us your name and spelling it. Carol Roberts: Okay, my name is Carol B. Roberts. C-A-R-O-L, initial B, as in Bobby, R-O-B-E-R-T-S. I came here in June 1944 with my mother and my sisters because my dad had been sent by DuPont out here. That is how I came to be […]
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Virginia Ballard’s Interview
Virginia Ballard: I was born in Charleston, West Virginia. When I finished ninth grade, my dad, who worked for DuPont in Bell, West Virginia, was transferred to Morgantown, West Virginia. We moved to Morgantown in the summer of 1942. In 1943, near the end of 1943, DuPont asked Dad to transfer to Richland, Washington, and […]
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Michele Gerber’s Interview (2018)
April 12, 2019
Cindy Kelly: It is September 11, 2018. I’m in Richland, Washington, Cindy Kelly. I have with me Michele Gerber, and what I’d like to ask her to do is to tell us her full name and spell it. Michele Gerber: Michele Stenehjem Gerber. M-i-c-h-e-l-e. S-t-e-n-e-h-j-e-m. Gerber, G-e-r-b-e-r. Kelly: Tell us a little more about your background. What […]
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CJ Mitchell’s Interview
January 9, 2019
CJ Mitchell: It’s CJ Mitchell, Junior. That’s just CJ. No periods or anything. It doesn’t stand for anything. And Mitchell – M-I-T-C-H-E-L-L. Kelly: Great. I would have made that mistake. Just like Harry Truman. It’s Harry S Truman, no period. Mitchell: Yeah, my dad was a CJ as well. Kelly: Was he? Mitchell: Yes. Kelly: You’re a junior. […]
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Roger Stover’s Interview
June 15, 2018
Alexandra Levy: I’m Alexandra Levy with the Atomic Heritage Foundation. I’m here in Florida on December 28, 2017, with Roger Stover. My first question is for you to please say your name and spell it.  Roger Stover: My name is Roger Stover, R-o-g-e-r, last name S-t-o-v-e-r.   Levy: Can you tell us about when and where you born, and […]