Browse Items (4772 total)

Jerry Martinez, a first-generation American, shares his family's journey from El Salvador to the United States. His parents fled the civil war in El Salvador and eventually made way to the U.S. through Mexico. Jerry was born and raised in the…

Reuben Peralta and his family immigrated to the United States from a small village in Colima, Mexico, in 1978. They initially lived in Tijuana before moving to the Tri-Cities. The Peralta family's experience highlights the challenges faced by many…

Christina talks about her career as one of the first women to do "D&D" (decontamination and decommissioning) work at the Hanford Site.

Lucy Aragon discusses migration to the United States, work, and raising her daughter Sharlett. Sharlett discusses growing up in Pasco and her work as a Washington State Representative and as a first person to attend college in her family. Watch the…

Interview with Bob Heineman for the Hanford Oral History Project. Bob talks about his parents work at Hanford, his education in Police Science, and his work on Hanford Patrol.View the interview on YouTube

Artemio Benítez Solano was born and raised in a small rural town in Mexico, where from an early age he dreamed of coming to the United States to work in agriculture. At sixteen, with his father’s reluctant permission, he left home with little more…

Nathaly Mendoza Posada was born in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, settling in Pasco, Washington, with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother, a single mother of six, had first migrated to the…

Ruben Lemos was born in Edinburg, Texas, to a large Mexican American migrant farmworking family that traveled across the western United States harvesting crops throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam…

This collection consists of documents pertaining to the residents of White Bluffs, Hanford, and the surrounding areas that were forced by the government to sell their land and leave the area, in order to make way for the Manhattan Project. Housed in…

An interview with Bill Decker conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Dale Denham conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Bill Kennedy conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with CJ Mitchell conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with George Greger conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Chuck Elderkin conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Larry Cadwell conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Dave Ottley conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Cecil Drotts conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Don Bihl conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with David Hess conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Marv Smith conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Jack Cline conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Jack Fix conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Gene Schreckhise conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Carl Corbit conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Gene Carbaugh conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Lyle Wilhimi conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Robert Scherpelz conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Vicki Berndt conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Tony Adaline conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Matt Lardy conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Ted Poston conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with William Pennell conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Walter Wilson conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Ed Tupin conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with William Tyler conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Ned Wogman conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Terri Aldridge conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Elsa & Trudy conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Sydney Proter conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Nels Laulainen conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Jim Hyde conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Jean Smith conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Ben Ramsville conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Ken Grasper conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Bill & Doris Johnson conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Gary Boothe conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Ron Kathren conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Bob Colley conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

An interview with Richard Jaquish conducted by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at Washington State University Tri-Cities.