they worked on the hanford project. when i got out of high school in 1947, i was 16 years of age, and i ended up coming to hanford. i came into east pascoe first. >> tell us about -- you were a lord -- allured by the stories of your uncle. cj: they had worked out here and they came back home and they got much more money. the word got around pretty fast and people were going not only to -- not only out here, but they were going to california, houston, dallas, beginning to migrate to different places. >> did you go by yourself as a 16-year-old? cj: when i came out to washington, the first time, it was myself and two first cousins and two other people from the community. five of us. we lived over in east pascoe. in a little tent. it was eight or nine feet in diameter and 3.5 or four feet high. we did not sit around. that is where we slept. this tent set outside of two small trailers. in between there were some steps going up on each side. my uncle and his wife lived in one and my great uncle and his wife lived in the other

it was thought like the hanford planned promised land to be a temporary thing. it was a mystery like the hanford. it was an instant town of 6000 people, but that's still there. now let's talk about how race changed because of the war. this is one of the more interesting side things as well. i mentioned portland was mostly almost all white city to this day portland. oregon is is i think the second most white major metropolitan city in the united states seattle is not far behind and not far behind that was los angeles? it was full of midwestern transplants. these were largely white cities along the coast. the war changed everything there. so i'll tell you a story. i live in an old farmhouse a block from lake washington in seattle and on summer days. i'll go lounge on my deck. every once in a while on a sunday, i'll hear this drone overhead this clip of air being chopped. and look up and see a formation of b-17s the flying fortresses. claims that won the war they have these reunions where they come and they fly the b-17s the flying fortress and they just kind of co

take care of yours >> cj mitchell recounts his time as a construction worker in hanford, washington,getting in the late 1940's. in an interview conducted by the atomic heritage foundation, he explains the impact great migration and segregation had on his family and how he became an equal opportunity specialist for the hanford laboratories. it was graded by the atomic -- created by the atomic heritage foundation. roger was an instrument engineer for the manhattan project. an interview, he explained how the reactor worked described the challenges scientists faced. in two hours, greg mitchell discusses three mgm studios newsreels produced for the successful 1934 campaign to defeat democratic editorial candidate upton sinclair. >> i am from northeastern texas. my relatives migrated here and my father-in-law and some other relatives migrated here during the manhattan project back in 1943. i was a young man back home and 10, 11, 12 years old, and we would hear people talking about hanford.

hanford today is the most contaminated nuclear site in the united states.are still cleaning it up. they will be cleaning it up after everyone in this room has gone. it's going to take forever. at the end of the cold war, 53 billion gallons of high level radioactive waste, 25 million cubic feet of solid radioactive waste, 200 square miles of contaminated groundwater. we still have huge chunks of land devoted to the war, 14 million acres and all. i know one of the professors present can talk on this later in the next couple of days. i also know along the area of the columbia river today were once there were just a few thousand people growing peaches on dusty sides. , there is now a thriving city, of a quarter million people, most of them doing cleanup jobs, but high paying jobs, and doing jobs that spin off from that. also nearby is the last free-flowing section of the columbia river. a huge home for those big fat, 40 pounds salmon that swim and spawn up there. one of the national monuments right now set aside more than 20 years ago, we may lose, it so it's m

a guy that did that, and then he saw to it these plants got built in advance of how to use them, hanford am not that familiar with, i think they were pretty well advanced from the work at the university of chicago to know what they wanted to do out there in the building, that was different. the four plants at oak ridge, i am sure you know none of them produced the material that was used at hiroshima. none of the plants had been able to produce enough material, and according to my reading, and i know it was done, oppenheimer and groves, i think oppenheimer suggested putting the plants in series i think they took the thermal diffusion product and fed it and then took the product and that is when they got enough to ship in april 1945 out there to los alamos. and that is all there is to it. we got special cylinders to feed to the cascade that weren't the same as the ones we had been feeding normally from the feed plant, the k 25. so there was something different in them, which we didn't know, but our job was to operate it that way. and suddenly, this fellow bill humes, who was in charge of t

it says fix that day has been cancelled we always fix things on tuesdays i see the same message at hanford fix a day has been cancelled why why is that they've been cancelled all of a sudden there was a message from david shoemaker to me look this place for a secret location on the web and you see something and there was this way for. but it was still far too early to sign a brains possible arras don't have to be considered everything from simple noise to a hacking attack nothing was ruled out the search had gone on too long to risk it with a promise to our announcement. we were very very scared of reproducing the web or deal. that was that they have all of our minds that we could ruin the whole field by making a false claim and this is after having spent now close to $1000000000.00 there couple different faces to it right there's there's the intellectual acknowledgement that it must have been a real thick now and then there's the change in world view from all of the decades that you spent trying to make an instrument that could possibly do something to the time after when that 1st signal

it says fix that day has been cancelled we always fix things on tuesdays i see the same message at hanford fix a day has been cancelled why why has fixed that they've been cancelled all of a sudden there was a message from david shoemaker to me look on this planet for a secret location on the web and you see something and there was this way for. but it was still far too early to celebrate possible errors still had to be considered everything from simple noise to a hacking attack nothing was ruled out the search had gone on too long to risk it with a premature announcement and we were very very scared of reproducing the webber deal. that was that they had all of our minds that we could ruin the whole field by making a false claim and this is after having spent now close to $1000000000.00 there couple different faces to it right there is there is the intellectual acknowledgement that it must have been a real signal and then there's the change in world view from all of the decades that you spent trying to make an instrument that could possibly do something to the time after when that 1st sign

. >> you work for dupont before you came to hanford. what made dupont a good choice for this project? roger: dupont was known for construction of plants and for chemical plants and so forth. they were noted for a couple things. one was their safety aspects, and other thing they called contingency. i had never heard that term used in a plant. our group wanted a tank. the designer said, what size tank do you want? 4,000 gallons ought to do it. he said, what is your contingency? i don't have any, that is what we need. ok, we will put in a 4500 gallon tank. this is a story with general groves, the story was enrico said 1500 was sufficient for the reactor. he goes to general groves and says, what is your contingency? 1500. something went wrong with this plant. the general is a pretty sharp guy, he says, how many more tubes do you want? he says, 500. so they put in 500 tubes. without that, the reactor probably would not operate. in the early days, while the reactors were given only a 56% chance of operating, which opened up another questions.

roger was an instrument engineer for the manhattan project at the hanford, washington b reactor, theorld's first production scale nuclear reactor. he was responsible for measuring neutron flow and monitoring radiation leve.

it's just really incredible hanford, los alamos, and then a lot of other little places that were doing things. all of that was going on secretly. and then came together successfully. so many brilliant german scientists were able to get here and work and help us. what its legacy will be, i wonder. as time goes on, you know, things in the past shrink and shrink and i sometimes wonder how students more and more history to learn and less and less time to. but i think the fact that you can see movies that's a much better way to learn than the way i did. just reading it. well, for the first time last night i heard this person on tv. he was calling it destructive creatism. and he was talking about civilizations that you have a war, there's a victor. there are big changes afterwards. well, i never thought about it in that way. and i don't like to think of it that way. but he's saying that over the centuries, there's always a big combat. and out of that comes new things that i hate to think that that's the only way new things can come. i don't know why we couldn't have a peaceful world with, yo

roger was an instrument engineer for the manhattan project at the hanford, washington b reactor, the world's first production scale nuclear reactor. he was responsible for measuring neutron flow and monitoring radiation levels. in an interview conducted by the atomic heritage foundation, he explains how the reactor works and described the challenges scientist faced in the early stages of the reactors development. the collection was created by the atomic heritage foundation and is managed by the national museum of nuclear science and history. >> in 1942 and 43, i was working for dupont at an acid plant in illinois. my buddies were disappearing, and they ended up in ritual and. i got the map out and richmond wasn't even on the map. i contacted and said what are you doing. they said we don't know and another guy interrupted and said it's dusty out here. a couple weeks later, boss sent a memo talking about a new job. i was young and single and said i would take it assuming i wouldn't appear in richland, whatever that was. he said report to a doctor at the university of chicago, 40 miles

it says fix that day has been cancelled we always fix things on tuesdays i see the same message at hanford fix a day has been cancelled why why has fixed that they've been cancelled all of a sudden there was a message from david shoemaker to me look on this planet for a secret location on the web and you see something and there was this way for. but it was still far too early to celebrate possible errors still have to be considered everything from simple noise to a hacking attack nothing was ruled out the search had gone on too long to risk it with a premise your announcement and we were very very scared of reproducing the web or deal. that was the thing of all of our minds that we could ruin the whole field by making a false claim and this is after having spent now close to $1000000000.00 there couple different faces to it right there is there is the intellectual acknowledgement that it must have been a real signal and then there's the change in world view from all of the decades that you spent trying to make an instrument that could possibly do something to the time after when that 1st s

hanford, los alamos, oak ridge, and there were a lot of other little places that were doing things. how all of that was going on secretly, and then came together successfully. so many brilliant german scientists were able to get here , and work, and help us. what its legacy will be, i wonder. as time goes on, you know, things in the past, for instance , [-. so i sometimes wonder how students, more and more history to learn. in less and less time to -- but i do think the fact that you can see movies, that is a much better way to learn, then the way i did. well, for the first time last night, i heard this person on tv. he was calling it, destructive creatism. he was talking about civilization that, you have a war, there is a victor, there are big changes afterwards. well i never thought about it in that way. and i do not like to think of it that way. but he is saying that over the centuries, there is always a [-] and out of that comes new things. but i hate to think that is the only way things can come. i do not know how we could not have a peaceful world. sometimes i think if there w

it says fix it they has been cancelled we always fix things on tuesdays i see the same message at hanford fix a day has been cancelled why why has fixed that they've been cancelled all of a sudden there was a message from david shoemaker to me look this planet for a secret location on the web and you'll see something and there was this way for. but it was still far too early to celebrate possible errors still had to be considered everything from simple noise to a hacking attack nothing was ruled out the search had gone on too long to risk it with a premise your announcement. and. we were very very scared of reproducing the weber deal. that was the thing on all of our minds that we could ruin the whole field by making a false claim and this is after having spent now close to $1000000000.00 there couple different faces to it right there is there is the intellectual acknowledgement that it must have been a real signal and then there's the change in world view from all of the decades that you spent trying to make an instrument that could possibly do something to the time after when that 1st s

hanford i am not too familiar with. i think they were pretty well geared in advance from chicago to know what they wanted to do out there and how to build it. it was different and oak ridge. you know, the four plants in oak ridge, and i'm sure you know, none of them produced the material that was a used at hiroshima. none of the plants had been able to produce enough material, and according to my reading, and i know it was done, oppenheimer suggested they put the plants in series. i think they took the thermal diffusion products and fed it to the cal you trans am took that and that's what they got and how they got enough to ship in april of 45 out to los alabama. that's all there was to it. we got special cylinders to feed to the cascade. it was not the same ones as normal at k25. so there was something different in numb, which we didn't know. but our job was to operate and suddenly, then, this fella bill, who was in charge of the top of the cascade and later in charge of all k25, and later the vice president of union c

it says fix that day has been cancelled we always fix things on tuesdays i see the same message at hanford fix a day has been cancelled why why has fixed that they've been cancelled all of a sudden there was a message from david shoemaker to me look on this planet secret location on the web and you'll see something and there was this way for. but it was still far too early to celebrate possible errors still had to be considered everything from simple noise to a hacking attack nothing was ruled out the search had gone on too long to risk it with a premise your announcement and we were very very scared of reproducing the weber deal. that was the thing of all of our minds that we could ruin the whole field by making a false claim and this is after having spent now close to $1000000000.00 for a couple different faces to it right there is there is the intellectual acknowledgement that it must have been a real signal and then there's the change in world view from all of the decades that you spent trying to make an instrument that could possibly do something to the time after when that 1st signal

i mentioned that mystery town on the columbia river hanford, washington, which was the epicenter of aanned promise land with the power of the river was harnessed to produce plutonium and not better those lives. the atomic bomb. the most contaminated site in the united states. they are still cleaning it up and they will still be cleaning it up after everyone in this room is gone. at the end of the cold war that site housed 53 million gallons of waste and 25 million cuban feet of solid radio active waste, 200 square miles of contaminated ground water. so, we still have huge chunks of land devoted to the land that was sort of drafted, constricted into the war and 14 million acres in all. i know one of the professors, professor farm is going to give a talk on this later in the next couple of days but i also know along that area of the columbia river today once a few thousand people growing peaches on a dusty little town before the war. there is a thriving city. the tri-cities of a quarter million people. most of them doing clean-up jobs but high-paying jobs and jobs that spin off from tha

these collective have stated that they are saying now, everybody can get immunized predict hanford immunityause we will wear a mask for the next 300 years. by the way, not just one mask, two or three or four pretty you cannot have too any masks. how much virtue you must signal. this is just dumb. >> the u.s. capitol has giant is with razor fires and 5000 national guards standing in front printed because the democrats are convinced that political - let's be clear, thit about security at this point. it is about 'political theater'. half the country have deplorable's are dangerous and they're going to turn to the capitol into a military outpost in baghdad. just to have their media echoed that message. but do you know what terrifies every one of these ? liberties powerful. it is persuasive and fun. and last week, when asked the great rush limbaugh. i was so blessed and so fortunate to call rush a friend. and he understood the power. before there was 70, and tucker and before van or stephen or before there was donald trump. there is rush limbaugh. [cheering and chanting]. and before them section