S. L. Sanger

William Norwood’s Interview

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] I came to Hanford in March, 1944, as Du Pont’s medical director. When we arrived, we stayed in a hotel, and felt sand in our teeth, sand on the bed. Richland had 200-300 people and […]

Warren Nyer’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book version: I stayed at Hanford until February of 1945. After the reactor […]

Walter Simon’s Interview

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] When I was called to Wilmington from Terre Haute in 1943 and told what we were getting into, I was flabbergasted. I couldn’t sleep that night and the next day I thought, “Well, I better […]

Wakefield Wright’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book Version: The first day of September, ’44, in a nice howling dust […]

Mac and Vera Jo MacCready’s Interview – Part 1

W.K. MacCready: One of the challenging things we had, when we started up the separations plant and were running a reasonably complex chemical process, was that we were not able to inform our operators of the identity of any of the chemicals that they used, including the additives that they pumped out of the storage […]

Vincent and Clare Whitehead’s Interview – Part 1

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book version: BUD: I was a counter-intelligence agent at Hanford. Everybody was suspicious […]

Sam Campbell’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book Version: I was working for Du Pont in Pryor, Oklahoma, a powder […]

Roger Fulling’s Interview (1986) – Part 1

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript of part 1 of the interview that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book Version: During the early days, before […]

Robley Johnson’s Interview

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] White Bluffs was a little bitty town of maybe 150 people. It was an orchard town, a ferry crossed the Columbia there. White Bluffs had a drug store that sold the best milkshakes I ever […]

John Marshall’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book Version: I got my doctorate in physics in 1941 at the University […]