Juleen Dalton, 2017

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Interview with Juleen Dalton, Downwinders of Utah Archive, September 11, 2017

Scope and Contents

Juleen Dalton’s mother Julia Michaelson Burr was a Downwinder and died from pancreatic cancer. Juleen grew up in Marysvale and Monroe, Utah. Her father David Nelson Burr was a uranium miner in Marysvale and died in mining accident. While living in Monroe, she recalls that her mother and neighbors would watch the clouds come over from the Nevada Test Site. One of their neighbors died of pancreatic cancer as well. Dalton and two of her sisters have thyroid problems that is often attributed atomic testing.
Interviewed by Justin Sorensen.

Dates

Creation: 2017

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