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S. L. Sanger

Oral History
Roger Fulling’s Interview (1985)
January 13, 2017
[To see an 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, click here.] Roger Fulling: Well, to identify myself, I was the Division Superintendent of Construction responsible – I reported to the Assistant Chief Engineer. I was responsible for procurement from the […]
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Roger Fulling’s Interview (1986) – Part 3
[To see an 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, click here.] Roger Fulling: During the very busy days of constructing the military explosive plants in 1942, General [Leslie] Groves visited the DuPont Company. Arrangements were made for him to meet […]
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Roger Fulling’s Interview (1986) – Part 2
December 16, 2016
[To see an 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, click here.] Roger Fulling: The DuPont Company, like many other chemical companies, was highly dependent upon the materials of construction, proper materials of construction for their facilities – equipment, piping, […]
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Vincent and Clare Whitehead’s Interview – Part 2
[To see an 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, click here.] Clare Whitehead: I got raised to Tech Sergeant, so he immediately got raised to Tech Sergeant. He said, “Well, we figured it was too bad we […]
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Richard Foster’s Interview
July 20, 2015
Richard Foster: This is Dick Foster. S. L. Sanger: Hi, this is Steve Sanger in Seattle. I wrote you a letter a few days ago after my conversation with Hanford. Did you get that? Foster: Yeah I just got home yesterday evening. Sanger: Do you have a few minutes? I guess I explained what we […]
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John W. Healy’s Interview
John Healy: Hello. S. L. Sanger: Hello this is Mr. Sanger from Seattle, is this a good time to talk about Hanford, or no. Healy: Another one you may want to talk to is Carl Garmertsfelder in Knoxville. Sanger: In Knoxville, now what was his position? Oregonian said he was a radiation control manager. Healy: […]
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Jack Hefner’s Interview
July 9, 2014
S. L. Sanger: This is Hefner on June 11, 1986, interviewed at his residence in Richland. Jack Hefner: The plant at Oak Ridge was operating to make enough samples of plutonium, so they could learn how to separate here at Hanford. Very few people said a great deal about that and knew much about it. […]
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Edward Teller’s Interview
June 25, 2014
S. L. Sanger: Hello. Dr. Teller? Edward Teller:  Yes. Sanger:  This is Steve Sanger. I am a reporter at Post Intelligencer in Seattle. We are doing a section, probably not until July, a commemoration of the Trinity test and first bombs, partly because of the presence of the Hanford reservation over in eastern Washington where […]
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Willie Daniels’s Interview
July 9, 2013
[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: My home was in Kildare, Texas. I grew up there, went […]
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Monsignor William Sweeney’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: After I left Massachusetts, I was stationed in Spokane and after […]