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Dennis Ortwein oral history interview
Identifier
OH-01416
Abstract
Oral history interview with Dennis Ortwein conducted by Claytee D. White on May 06, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Ortwein discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 and his various careers as an elementary school teacher, a junior high teacher, and an elementary school principal. He also discusses working at a teacher's college in Nigeria, being a church choir director, and his experience as a singer. He then talks about school integration in Las Vegas and above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.
Archival Collection
Women activists holding up signs, image 002: photographic print
Date
1987-12
Archival Collection
Description
Solidarity Action in Hamburg Germany December 1987. The poster reads, "The atom test site in Nevada back to the western shoshone."
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