Interview with Chester Reed, Downwinders of Utah Archive, June 14, 2017, Video

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Title Interview with Chester Reed, Downwinders of Utah Archive, June 14, 2017, Video
Creator Reed, Chester
Contributor Sams, Anthony
Date 2017-06-14
Subject Nuclear weapons testing victims--West (U.S.); Nuclear weapons--Testing--Nevada; Radioactive fallout--Physiological effect--West (U.S.); Radioactive fallout--Health aspects--West (U.S.)
Description Video (16 minutes, 34 seconds) of an interview conducted by Anthony Sams with Chester Reed in Kanab, Utah, June 2017. Interview discusses his experiences as a child living in Indian Springs, where his father who was a carpenter built towns that were blown up during the testing. Reed calls himself an "Upwinder", because he was in Clark County, Nevada during the tests. Reed also worked at the test site in radiation control.
Type Image/MovingImage
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format video/mp4
Extent 16:34
Language eng
Rights
Is Part of Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project
ARK ark:/87278/s68q08mm
Setname uum_dua
ID 1379179
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68q08mm
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