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Oral history interview with David Wilson, 1998

Call Number

OH0941

Date

1998

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102

Oral history interview with Melinda Kassen, 1998

Call Number

OH1531

Date

1998

Description

Melinda Kassen offers a nuanced picture of the Rocky Flats cleanup, balancing activist concerns against the political underpinnings of site restoration. Melinda became involved in Rocky Flats in 1986 as a lawyer with the Environmental Defense Fund. She later chaired the budget committee of the Colorado Council on Rocky Flats and, in 1993, became environmental counsel to the House Armed Services

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103

Oral history interview with D. Chet Tchozewski, 1998

Call Number

OH0926

Date

1998

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104

Oral history interview with Jack Dale Weaver

Call Number

OH1516

Date

1998

Description

Jack Weaver began his 35-year career at Rocky Flats in 1961, doing outdoor physical labor and then quickly moving into chemical operations, where he advanced to foreman, and then shift manager, and then operations manager for building 771. He also worked in the Health and Safety Department. In this interview, Jack gives a narrative of his career, including descriptions of chemical processes

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105

Oral history interview with Harvey Nichols, 1999

Call Number

OH1507

Date

1999

Description

Professor Harvey Nichols got involved with Rocky Flats in 1975, when he began tracking pollen drifts around the site, and testing for airborne transport of radioactive material. In this recording he discusses the health hazards implicated by his research, and he criticizes the inadequate response from state officials. Nichols was thrust into the limelight after the 1989 FBI raid, and he talks

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106

Oral history interview with Ed Howard, 1999

Call Number

OH0951-V

Date

1999

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107

Oral history interview with Jerry E. Felknor, 1999

Call Number

OH0952-V

Date

1999

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108

Oral history interview with Dr. Bob Bistline, 1999

Call Number

OH0959

Date

1999

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109

Oral history interview with Iggy Litaor, 1999

Call Number

OH1506

Date

1999

Description

In 1990 Iggy Litaor was hired by contractor EG&G to characterize the "actinides" (radioactive elements) in the Rocky Flats soil environment. In this interview Iggy describes the circumstances under which he was hired, the nature of his research, the remarkable events of May 17, 1995 - when significant runoff occurred, and data from his soil-monitoring system showed that actinides are not immobile

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110

Oral history interview with James S. Stone (1 of 3), 1999

Call Number

OH0978

Date

1999

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111

Oral history interview with Jack Dale Weaver, 1999

Call Number

OH0965-V

Date

1999

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112

Oral history interview with Frend John Miner, 1999

Call Number

OH0957-V

Date

1999

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113

Oral history interview with James S. Stone (2 of 3), 1999

Call Number

OH0979

Date

1999

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114

Oral history interview with John E. Hill, 1999

Call Number

OH0998-V

Date

1999

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115

Oral history interview with Jason Salzman, 1999

Call Number

OH1510

Date

1999

Description

Jason Salzman began working on the Greenpeace campaign against Rocky Flats in August 1989, shortly after the FBI raid and before the plant was closed for safety violations. As an activist, he used creative PR tactics to ensure that Rocky Flats{u2019} operations would not resume. In this interview, Jason talks about his background, the lead up to the Flats{u2019} shutdown, specific strategies

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116

Oral history interview with David Skaggs, 1999

Call Number

OH0964-V

Date

1999

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117

Oral history interview with Jacque Brever, 1957

Call Number

OH1498

Date

1999

Description

Jacque Brever was hired at Rocky Flats in 1982, when she was 25 years old. She started in the cafeteria, worked her way into a position as chemical operator, and became a whistleblower after the 1989 FBI raid. In this interview Jacque talks at length about her personal experiences on the job: training for her postion, the work she did, what she struggled against, description of plant processes

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118

Oral history interview with Jack Weaver, 1999

Call Number

OH1517

Date

1999

Description

This brief interview with Jack Weaver is a follow-up to one that took place in 1998 (OH1516). Conversation focuses on the possibility that Rocky Flats can be cleaned up, as promised, by the year 2006. Jack talks about his own doubts and his reasons for questioning the timetable as well as the planning. He calls attention to the lack of historic knowledge being applied to the site{u2019}s

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119

Oral history interview with Glenda Kay Conder, 2000

Call Number

OH1006-V

Date

2000

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120

Oral history interview with Len Ackland, 2000

Call Number

OH0991-V

Date

2000

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121

Oral history interview with Niels Schonbeck, 2000

Call Number

OH0990-V

Date

2000

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122

Oral history interview with Sawada Shonin Gyosen, 2000

Call Number

OH1607

Date

2000

Description

Buddhist monk Gyosen Sawada Shonin belongs to an order that works for world peace and nuclear disarmament. He came to the United States from Japan in 1978 and decided to settle in the Boulder area to make his spiritual practice the peaceful protest of the Rocky Flats plant and the awakening of the consciousness of local population with regard to peace and nuclear weapons. In this interview he

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123

Oral history interview with Janet E. Brown, 2000

Call Number

OH1427-V

Date

2000

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124

Oral history interview with James S. Stone (3 of 3), 2000

Call Number

OH0980-V

Date

2000

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125

Oral history interview with Jim Kelly, 2000

Call Number

OH1504

Date

2000

Description

This interview is a follow-up to a prior conversation recorded in 1998. Jim Kelly talks about current negotiations for benefits and compensation that would apply to retired or disabled Rocky Flats workers. He expresses concern over shoddy recordkeeping by plant management, which has hampered workers{u2019} ability to prove their involvement in contamination incidents. Kelly also addresses

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