Corporate Involvement in the Manhattan Project

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 […]

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 […]

Ray Genereaux’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 started with Du Pont in 1929, in chemical engineering research, […]

Oswald Greager’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 in charge of the division at Oak Ridge which […]

Orville Hill’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: While I was in Oak Ridge, they chose the so-called bismuth […]

Norman Hilberry’s Interview (1985)

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] I was teaching at NYU and Ann and I had gone into our first faculty party just before Christmas ’41. Our babysitter called and told us a telegram had come. It was from Compton. “Have […]

Miles Leverett’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: When my boss T.V. Moore asked me if I wanted to […]

Lombard Squires’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 one of the four young engineers that Crawford Greenewalt […]