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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: […]

Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation. I am here today with a special Manhattan Project veteran. My first question is for you to say your name and spell it.  Fred Vaslow: Fred, F – R – E – D, Vaslow, V – A – S – L – O – W. Kelly: The […]

Theresa Strottman: We are speaking with Ed Doty and we thank you so much for coming today. Ed Doty: You’re welcome; delighted to be here. Strottman: To start off the interview could you briefly could you tell me when and where you were born and something about your early education and training. Doty: Born in […]

Ed Doty worked as a technician with the Army’s Special Engineer Detachment (SED) in Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project. He recounts what life was like working on the secret site.

Cindy Kelly: Okay. I am Cindy Kelly from the Atomic Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. It is May 2, 2013 in Raleigh, North Carolina. I have with me Herb Depke. Could we start with you saying your full name, Herb, and spelling it?  Depke: My full name?  Kelly: Full name.  Depke: Herbert Walfred Depke, H-E-R-B-E-R-T, […]

Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, the date is June 6, 2013, and we are here with Dr. Roy Glauber. And your first question is to tell me your name and spell it. Tough one, start with a tough one. Roy Glauber: I probably can even spell it! I am Roy Glauber and that is […]

Robert Furman: Robert Furman. F-U-R-M-A-N. I was an assistant to General Groves in the Manhattan District, in his Twenty-First Street offices here in Northwest. And I joined him in late autumn of ‘43 and left him right after the war—right after the end of the war. Cindy Kelly: Can we—just to—no one’s going to hear […]

Cindy Kelly: Let’s start by having you tell us your name and spelling it. Irene LaViolette: I’m Irene LaViolette. Kelly: And how do you spell that? Can you spell your name? LaViolette: I-R-E-N-E; V middle initial, LaViolette, L-A-V-I-O-L-E-T-T-E.  Kelly: Great. Today’s date is February 13, 2013. My name is Cindy Kelly and we’re here at […]

Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly and I am interviewing here Dimas Chavez. My first question to him is, please tell us your name and how to spell it. Dimas Chavez: Dimas, D-I-M-A-S Chavez, C-H-A-V-E-Z. I was born in the central part in New Mexico, a small little ranching, farming, Mexican-American community by the name […]

[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 […]