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The four interviews in the project discuss the creation of the Committee for Environmental Information. The interviewees talk about how they became involved in the group and the politics that they had to deal with along the way. Also discussed are the political and military situations of the time.
| Interviewee: | Bauer, Walter |
| Call number: | 73-009 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | April 27, 1973 |
| Physical Description: | 18 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 45 minutes; index; photocopy of picture of interviewee |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Peterson, D. Scott |
Dr. Walter C. Bauer tells about how the Committee for Environmental Information formed out of concern over radioactivity in the late nineteen fifties. A non-partisan group, it attracted those who were interested in stopping arms proliferation and testing, as well as those who were concerned with radioactive contamination of food, air, and soil. Bauer was one of the founding members and remained with the group despite its growth.
Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic Energy Commission
Barnes Hospital
Bulletin Nuclear
Information
Committee for Nuclear Information
Globe Democrat
Hardy Salt Company
Ohio State University
Washington University
Compton
Baumgardner, Walter
Brodine, Virginia
Commoner, Barry
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Folwer, John
Gellhorn, Edna
Hardy, Walter
Pauling, Linus C.
Pond, Alex
Reynolds, J.B.
Stevenson, Adlai
St. Louis, Missouri
surgical pathologist
atomic energy
radiation
radiation
| Interviewee: | Brodine, Virginia Warner |
| Call number: | 71-012 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | May 12, 1972 |
| Physical Description: | 30 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Peterson, D. Scott |
Virginia Warner Brodine, born on February 18, 1915, tells about the creation of the Committee for Environmental Information. She describes what led her and others to become involved in the organization. She also talks about the organization's early years and how people reacted to what they were doing.
American Association for the Advancement of
Science
Committee for Nuclear Information
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
League of Women Voters
Metropolitan Church Federation
Pacific Gas and Electric
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Scientists Committee for Radiation Information
Scientists Institute for Public Information
St. Louis Committee for Environmental
Information
Washington University
Abele, Ralph
Bauer, Walter
Baumgarten, Judy
Carson, Rachel Louise
Commoner, Barry
Condon, Ed A.
Fowler, John
Friedlander, Mike
Gellhorn, Edna
Hohenemser, Christoph
Hohenemser, Kurt
Malamas, Marcelle
Mattison, Lin
Mead, Margaret
Moog, Florence
Pauling, Linus C.
Pesonen, Dave
Peterson, Malcom
Reynolds, J.B.
Wigner, Eugene
Bodega Bay, California
St. Louis, Missouri
journalist
1957 Pauling Petition
1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1967 Freedom of Information Act
McCarthyism
Project Chariot
Project Plowshare
environment
milk testing
nuclear fallout
nuclear power
nuclear war
radioactivity
supersonic transport
unions
| Interviewee: | Commoner, Barry |
| Call number: | 73-011 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | April 24, 1973 |
| Physical Description: | 36 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 85 minutes; no index |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Peterson, D. Scott |
Barry Commoner, born in 1915, describes his education and how he came to be a scientist. He talks about his experiences as a scientist during World War II and how this prompted his involvement in various scientific organizations. He describes how the Committee for Environmental Information came to be and the function it served.
American Association for the Advancement of
Science
Association of Scientific Workers
Atomic Energy Commission
Columbia University
Cornell University Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical
College
Federation of American Scientists
Federation of Atomic Scientists
Harvard University
Scientists Institute for Public Information
Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee
Seth Low Junior College
United States Department of Agriculture
University of Illinois
WPA
Washington University
Bauer, Walter
Baumgarten, Judy
Brodine, Virginia
Bronk, Detler
Bush, Vannevar
Carson, Rachel Louise
Condon, Ed A.
Deutsch, Babette
Dunn, Leslie C.
Edman, Irwin
Fowler, John
Gellhorn, Edna
Kilgore, Harley M.
LeMar, Victor
Magnuson, Warren G.
Mead, Margaret
Metcalf, Robert
Modell, Walter
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Pauling, Linus C.
Stevenson, Adlai
Thimann, Kenneth
Weaver, Warren
Brooklyn, New York
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Patuxent River
Soviet Union
St. Louis, Missouri
atomic bomb
1945 May-Johnson Bill
Cold War
DDT
McCarthyism
New Deal
Russo-Finnish Way
discrimination
nuclear fallout
radiation
science
| Interviewee: | Novick, Sheldon |
| Call number: | 73-010 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | March 29, 1973 |
| Physical Description: | 20 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 50 minutes; no index |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Peterson, D. Scott |
Sheldon Novick, editor of Magazine and employee of the Committee for Environmental Information and the Scientists' Institute for Public Information, tells about the formation of the Committee of Environmental Information. He especially describes Barry Commoner's role in the creation of CEI and the national mood which helped lead to the creation of CEI.
Antioch College
Environment
Federation of Atomic Scientists
Office of Naval Research
Brodine, Virginia
Carson, Rachel Louise
Commoner, Barry
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Pauling, Linus C.
Teller, Edward
Bodega Bay, California
England
Ohio
San Andreas fault
San Francisco, California
St. Louis, Missouri
editor
Silent Spring
conservation
nuclear fallout
nuclear testing
politics
science
weapons