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Broudy, Pat, 1923-2017
Radiation survivors advocate "Pat" Broudy was born Alice Patricia Sutton in Overland, Kansas in 1923 at the home of her grandparents. She spent her formative years in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1948, she ventured with friends to San Francisco, California where she met Marine Major Charles A. Broudy. Major Broudy was attending radiological school there. After a whirlwind courtship they were married in 1949. Major Broudy had already served in WWII as a pilot in the Pacific theater.
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Nevada Desert Experience (Organization)
- 1957 August 06
- Larry Scott and other Quakers protest nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1977 August 06
- Sr. Rosemary Lynch and 18 others return to the NTS to honor the anniversary of the Quaker protests.
- 1981
- Michael Affleck, Louis Vitale, and other Franciscans in California and Nevada begin to contemplate holding a Lenten witness at the NTS to commemorate the 800th birthday of St. Francis of Assisi.
- 1982
- Michael Affleck, Louis Vitale, and other Franciscans begin protests at the NTS.
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