Real estate developer and entrepreneur William Robert "Bob" Hampton was the mayor of Henderson,

Nevada from 1965 to 1969. He also served as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Southern Nevada

Regional Housing Authority. He also was part owner of Taylor Steel Company, which participated in

several major construction projects in Southern Nevada, including the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Richard "Dick" Hannah was the vice president of the public relations firm Carl Byoir & Associates. His firm was hired to manage the public relations of the companies of Howard Hughes, and Dick Hannah was the account executive to the Hughes account.

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files, 1931-1997. MS-00380. Special Collections and

Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Harley Roberts was a security guard on the Nevada Test Site in southern Nevada during the fateful "Baneberry" test in 1970. He, along with William Nunamaker, stayed at their positions on the site while others evacuated. Roberts was also one of the 300 or so workers who developed complications, including cancer, after being exposed to the radioactive fallout. Roberts filed suit against the United States government in 1972 along with Nunamaker, also alleging that his leukemia was caused by radiaoactive fallout. Harley Roberts died in 1974.

Long-time Las Vegas resident Ruth Evaline Hazard (née Worden) was born in Marshall, Michigan on June 25, 1907 to Joseph V. Worden and Mary D. Hare. She lived in Michigan until she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1931. Over the course of her lifetime, she worked as a secretary, a bookkeeper/accountant, and worked at Baker and Hazard Realty (a property management company founded by C. D. Baker and H. E. Hazard).