Craig Booth, 2017

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Interview with Craig Lang Booth, Downwinders of Utah Archive, June 12, 2017

Scope and Contents

Craig Booth was born and raised in St. George, Utah. Booth has worked as a physician for over four decades. When he was a boy, he and his father would go watch the flashes and feel the aftershocks of atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site. Booth describes the effects of the testing on people in his family and in his community, particularly the high rates of cancer he has observed in Southern Utah. He also expresses his feelings of disappointment and distrust in the Federal Government because of the nuclear tests and their consequences.
Interviewed by Anthony Sams.

Dates

Creation: 2017

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