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Oral History
Bill Hudgins’s Interview
January 20, 2016
Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly. It is October 14, 2015. We’re in in Los Alamos, New Mexico and my first question for the gentleman with me is to tell me your name and spell it. Bill Hudgins: William G. Hudgins. W-I-L-L-I-A-M. G stands for Gordon. Hudgins. H-U-D-G-I-N-S. Kelly: First, could you start by telling […]
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Gabriel Bohnee’s Interview
December 4, 2015
[Interviewed by Cynthia Kelly, Tom Zannes, and Thomas E. Marceau.] Gabriel Bohnee: My name is Gabriel Bohnee. I’m Nez Perce tribal member, work for the Nez Perce’s tribe Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Office as an environmental specialist. How’d you first learn about the Hanford site? Bohnee: I first learned about the Hanford site through—I […]
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Robert J.S. Brown’s Interview
August 7, 2015
Robert JS Brown: I’m Robert JS Brown. Robert S. Norris: You are recording this oral history for the Atomic Heritage Foundation on June third, two thousand fifteen in Washington, DC. Brown: Yes, right. Robert S. Norris: How did you become involved in the Manhattan Project? Can you tell us about that? Robert JS Brown: Like most […]
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Hans Courant’s Interview
May 26, 2015
Cindy Kelly: I’m Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation and this is Friday, April 10, 2015. We’re at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. I have Hans Courant with me, and the first question for him is please tell us your name and spell it. Hans Courant: My name is Hans Courant, and it’s spelled C-o-u-r-a-n-t. […]
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Nancy Bartlit’s Interview (2013)
February 27, 2015
Cindy Kelly: This is Cindy Kelly. It is July 31, 2013, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and with me is Nancy Bartlit. I want her to say her full name and spell it. Nancy Bartlit: My full name is Nancy Reynolds Bartlit, N-A-N-C-Y R-E-Y-N-O-L-D-S.  Bartlit is B-A-R-T-L-I-T. Kelly: Excellent. Bartlit: And I use the name Reynolds […]
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General Leslie Groves’s Interview – Part 11
*[Please note that General Groves – Part 10 could not be found in the Groueff Collection. The interview was either mislabeled, misplaced, or does not exist.] [We would like to thank Robert S. Norris, author of the definitive biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable […]
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Adrienne Lowry’s Interview
February 6, 2015
Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation from Washington, D.C. and it is Tuesday, January 14, 2014 and I am here with Adrienne Lowry, who was married to Joseph Kennedy, a radio chemist with the Manhattan Project. Adrienne, let us start with you. Can you tell us your name, say your name and […]
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Dorothy McKibbin’s Interview (1965)
October 14, 2014
Stephane Groueff: If you can tell me even before you came here briefly, your life before and how you happened to be here. McKibbin: Well, I was brought up in Kansas City, and went to Smith College and traveled a great deal with my father after my graduation, through Europe, through Alaska, through South America. […]
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Russell Jim’s Interview
April 2, 2014
[Interviewed by Cynthia Kelly, Tom Zannes, and Thomas E. Marceau.] Russell Jim: My name is Russell Jim, R-U-S-S-E-L-L, J-I-M. Can you tell us what the land at Hanford has meant to the Yakama people? Jim: Most definitely. The Hanford area was our wintering ground, the Palm Springs of the area. And the winters were milder […]
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Helen Jernigan’s Interview
February 6, 2014
Cindy Kelly: My name is Kelly. I am with the Atomic Heritage Foundation. And I am in Oak Ridge, Tennessee today, which is Friday, September 6, 2013. And we are very fortunate today to have Helen Jernigan. And I am going to start by asking Helen to say her name and spell it. Helen Jernigan: […]