Leonard Heaton, 2017

File — Box: 1, Folder: 19

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Interview with Leonard Heaton, Downwinders of Utah Archive, June 14, 2017

Scope and Contents

Leonard Heaton recounts waking up early in the morning to watch atomic tests from his bedroom window at Pipe Spring National Monument, Arizona, where his father was Acting Custodian. He recalls seeing the flashes and feeling the vibrations from atomic testing. His youngest sister died from breast cancer and his wife from lung cancer, which his family believes is from living downwind from the Nevada Test Site.
Interviewed by Anthony Sams.

Dates

Creation: 2017

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