Port Chicago : was it America's first atomic explosion / produced by Roy Giampoli and Tom Cairns.

Program Title:
Port Chicago : was it America's first atomic explosion / produced by Roy Giampoli and Tom Cairns.
PRA Archive #: 
SZ0108
Description: 

Documentary about the explosion of a naval ship at Port Chicago on July 17, 1944. An article in The Black Scholar, by Peter Vogel, alleges that the explosion might have been a nuclear bomb test using Black port workers as subjects. Includes phone interviews with Vogel and with Dr. Fred Cranston who refutes the theory.|PORT CHICAGO : WAS IT AMERICA'S FIRST ATOMIC EXPLOSION? / produced by Ray Giampoli and Tom Carins. - Documentary which explores the theory that an explosion which rocked Port Chicago in California on July 17, 1944, was actually an atomic test. Peter Vogel, in an article which appeared in The Black Scholar, argues that the explosion was a test of atomic weapons, with the Black port workers as subjects. The program includes a phone interview with Peter Vogel, as well as a discussion with Dr. Fred Cranston who disagrees with the theory. - BROADCAST: KHSU, 20 Sept. 1982.

Date Recorded on: 
Date Broadcast on: 
KHSU, 20 Sept. 1982.
Item duration: 
1 reel (64 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.|64:00
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Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1982.
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