Rare Film of Wartime Oak Ridge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2011
- If you've ever wanted to see what Oak Ridge looked like during the World War II Manhattan Project, this is a rare -- if not unique -- opportunity. Color film footage uncovered in recent months at Oak Ridge National Laboratory includes extraordinary scenes of construction workers busy building production plants, support facilities and the town site that were essential to U.S. development of the first atomic bomb. More info: goo.gl/amVfl
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growing up in oak ridge-this is awesome to see. i wish some ron howard would write the story of oak ridge. it's gotta be an amazing story there. maybe one day i create my own story. love my hometown.
Gregory Boyer Hello fellow person who lives here.
Now all the recollections from residents at the time about the pervasive mud make sense!
Having grown up in Oak Ridge I gotta say this is really cool!
nwcs2 same
My dad was a police man in Oakridge Tn. during ww2 and after
@Thallium208 Some of the shots seemed to be of and from the Jackson Square/Blankenship Field area, and the road which became The Turnpike. I would like to see more of the old city though.
@knoxnews, I'm working on a new LFTR video (a follow up to "LFTR in 16 Minutes") and would appreciate permission to include your footage in what will ultimately be a video released under CC-Share-ALike (or CC-BY) license. Could you either give me an OK here, or change the license to be CC-BY? I'll certainly credit and link to you. (And this is a long project so will be months before it will be out.)
My grandmother worked there making parts and such. It is near impossible to get any information about it. We did find that she kept her housing information and other things like that for her stay there. I even have post cards that she kept and sent with a picture of the factory.
My grandmother and great aunt (sisters) were both there. They were both born and raised in Appalachia (WNC) and recruited to help end the war and bring the boys home.
My grandma died of cancer before I was born. From what my dad said she would not talk about it a lot and my aunt would not. I tried to talk to her about it a couple times but she would only discuss dances and trips to the movies. Only the pleasant, interesting and exciting things for 2 young women coming from a mountain home with no electricity or indoor plumbing. I think the rest was too hard and strange for her, and I am sure the non stop reminders to not speak about anything they saw there stuck with them long after they finally knew exactly what was going on. I'm sure it caused many conflicting emotions.
My grandmother got extremely sick before I was born and was unable to communicate to anyone. So I was unable to talk to her when I was old enough to know about it. Though I met her and spent time around her, I never really "knew" her because of the brain damage she suffered from getting sick.
+Mrs. Thomas I am sorry. Do you know if it was stroke or something else?
There are so many things I wish I could have asked my grandmother about her time at OR. I was fascinated and floored the first time I heard, "they helped build the atomic bomb, and didn't even know it". I also wish my aunt would have discussed it, when I tried to talk to her in the late 80s and 90s. I would have liked to know which building they worked in and what they did, even though I am aware most only had a bare bones and vague description of their duties. Nope. She always distracted. "Here's a necklace and engagement ring an old flame gave your grandmother. I saved it in case she had a granddaughter. Want another tea cake? Here's the recipe. Only make them real churned butter". :-/ I've at least enjoyed reading oral histories from Oak Ridge and watching interviews with women and men who worked there through the Atomic Heritage Foundation. They always ask the main question I wanted to know the answer to.
+Mrs. Thomas "How did you feel when you heard about the atomic bomb and realized what you had been working on"?
My Aunt was still not willing to answer this before she passed away.
My grandmother got viral encephalitis from what they believed was a mosquito bite. Her fever got so high that it caused her brain damage. She had a stroke a year or two later. Any interaction that we had with her when I was child was basic. She couldn't talk and could barely move. She would look around and look at everyone like she could recognize them though maybe not sure of who they were. She lived in a local psychiatric hospital for 19 years until her death in the mid 90s. Her mental state was said to be that of a small child in her later years. My mother knows very little about OR. It never occurred to her to ask her about it until it was too late to. I do know that my grandmother never really talked about it. All of her siblings are passed away now too. One day I want to visit the OR to see if I can get any information about what she did there.
Just checking
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Narration might have been nice.
My late Mother taught grade school there 1943-45.
I'll do it often till I see what's going on here
You seem to get around Mr. Finch --- Been seeing your name crop up on several of these nuclear documentaries!!...The man who has friends in their 90's who worked in the nuclear plant at Paducah and who are as fit as fiddles!
I take care of a sweet lady who worked there,