PRESS RELEASE 9/14/2006
Contact: Theresa A. Strottman
Miller Library
Technical Services Manager
ph: 505 538 6355
fx: 505 538 6063
Remembering Los Alamos: World War II
On September 28, 2006 Remembering Los Alamos: World War II, a documentary featuring interviews of Manhattan Project veterans, will be shown at Western New Mexico University in the Student Memorial Building Seminar Room at 7:00 pm. In 1995 this documentary was shown on the History Channel.
During World War II people from many places, in both the United States and Europe, gathered in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to build an atomic bomb before the Germans could. In this one-hour documentary World War II era Los Alamos residents describe the creation of the United States’ first atomic weapons laboratory, life in the secret city, and the first atomic bomb test.
Theresa Strottman, who produced the documentary, conducted most of the interviews, and wrote the script, will answer questions after the screening. She has published a number of articles on the Manhattan Project and contributed a chapter to Los Alamos: The Ranch School Years. At present she is the Technical Services Manager at Western New Mexico University’s Miller Library.
Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, will be open to the public on Saturday, October 7, 2006. The documentary contains interviews recorded at Trinity Site and World War II footage of the first atomic bomb test. Attending this presentation is an opportunity to learn about the Manhattan Project and Trinity Site.
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