Dirty Harry: when an American dream became a nightmare, part 1

In 1951, the first Atom bomb was detonated over a section of desert called Frenchman Flat, about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas.

For more than forty years, this stretch of sage brush and sand would become ground zero for U.S. nuclear testing. In fact, the last detonation happened just fifteen years ago, on September 23, 1992.

Since the early 1990’s, independent producer Claes Andreasson has interviewed test site workers, scientists, legal scholars and test officials, as well as people living “downwind” from the Nevada Test Site. “Dirty Harry: When the American Dream became a Nightmare” is a culmination of those interviews.

Host Jon Beaupre will be our guide as we hear the stories about the early years of testing and how it affected people working at, and living nearby the test site.

Featuring::

Kern Bulloch, sheep farmer, Cedar City, Utah; Hal Curtis, iron worker at the Nevada Test Site, (Interview courtesy of KNPR-Las Vegas); Troy Wade, former test manager, Las Vegas, Nevada; Elmer Picket, Claudia Peterson, Michelle Thomas, "downwinders," St. George, Utah; Janet Gordon and Patricia Gordon Dominguez, "downwinders," Las Vegas, Nevada; Mike Wilcox, former test site worker, Las Vegas, Nevada; Joseph Lyon, University of Utah professor, Salt Lake City; John Gofman, professor emeritus, San Francisco, California; Bruce Jenkins, U.S. District Court Judge, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Contributing Freelance Producer: Claes Andreasson and host Jon Beaupre
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Samson Reiny and Joaquin Palomino

“Dirty Harry: When the American Dream Became a Nightmare” was made possible in part by the PRX reversioning project.

For more information::

The Nevada Desert Experience
1420 West Bartlett Avenue
Las Vegas, NV
702-646-4814
info@nevadadesertexperience.org
www.nevadadesertexperience.org

HEAL Utah
68 South Main Street, Suite 400
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
801-355-5055
www.healutah.org

Shundahai Network
P.O. Box 51137
Washington, DC 20091
202-588-0912
shundahai@radix.net
www.shundahai.org

Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
775-468-0230
wsdp@igc.org
www.wsdp.org

Downwinders
254 West 500 North
Malad City, ID 83252
www.downwinders.org

Western States Legal Foundation
1504 Franklin St., Suite 202
Oakland, CA 94612
510-839-5877
webmaster@wslfweb.org
www.wslfweb.org

Peace Action
110 Wayne Ave., Suite 1020
Silver Spring, MD 20910
www.peace-action.org

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"My Hero" (Jeff Beal)
"Back Safe At Home" (Jeff Beal)
"I am Leaving You" (Ry Cooder)
"Upstairs" (Jeff Beal )
"Letter from Lee" (Jeff Lee- Jeff Beal)
"Downwinders"
"To a Wild Rose" (Edward MacDowell-Lorelle Nelson)