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Audio recording clip of interview with Herbert F. York by Mary Palevsky, July 18, 2004

Date

2004-07-18

Description

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, First director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Arms control negotiator; Director, Defense Dept. Research and Engineering

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with G. Nicholas Stuparich by Mary Palevsky, October 18, 2006

Date

2006-10-18

Description

Narrator affiliation: Atomic Veteran, Pacific Proving Ground; Curtiss Atomic Marines

Sound

Audio clip from an interview with Dan Connell by Shirley Emerson on November 18, 2013

Date

2013-11-18

Description

In 1954, Dan Connell enrolled as a sophomore at Las Vegas High School, newly arrived from Ocean Gate, New Jersey, where his father was a New Jersey state trooper. The family’s first living space was a converted two-car garage close to McCarran airport. Living there seemed far out of town at the time; so far out that the school district could not justify providing him bus service. Instead, the family was reimbursed for his transportation costs. Dan also worked fulltime in a restaurant near McCarran Airport while going to high school. This was followed by two years in the military. Afterwards, he returned to Las Vegas, went to school, married his wife Linda, and eventually settled in the Westleigh neighborhood of Ward 1 in 1973. Westleigh remains their home, the place where they raised four sons, lived near their parents, enjoyed Sunday dinners surrounded by family and friends, and the neighborhood where their sons delivered newspapers. All four sons, David, Donald, Mark and Brian, still

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Banquet Presentations and Contractor's Forum Roadrunners Internationale A-12 Session oral history interview, 2005 October 05

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00818
Collection Name: Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 01

Archival Component

Banquet Presentations and Contractor's Forum Roadrunners Internationale A-12 Session oral history interview, 2005 October 06

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00818
Collection Name: Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 01

Archival Component

Ricardo Jimenez oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00948

Abstract

Oral history interview with Ricardo Jimenez conducted by Andres Moses on September 18, 2005 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Jimenez discusses his personal history growing up in Los Angeles, California. He recalls visiting Las Vegas, Nevada in 1972 and describes the Las Vegas Strip at the time. Jimenez discusses his move to Las Vegas and living on the East Side during the late 1970s. Lastly, Jimenez recalls his education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, starting his own business, and entering the landscaping industry.

Archival Collection

D. Taylor with Bally's staff, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 2005 (folder 1 of 1), image 18

Date

2005

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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Christmas party, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 2005 December (folder 2 of 3), image 18

Date

2005-12

Description

Arrangement note: Series IV. Internal: Social

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Christmas party, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 2005 December (folder 1 of 3), image 18

Date

2005-12

Description

Arrangement note: Series IV. Internal: Social

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