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11-02-2005, 11:29 AM
New Mexico Tech’s Library announces final program series observing 60 years since World War II. “Trinity: Too Close for Comfort” will detail the effects of the first atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. A unique opportunity to hear and meet eyewitness, close-up accounts of the Trinity Test will present itself in Socorro the evening of Thursday, November 10 at the New Mexico Tech Library, corner of Bullock and Leroy Place on the northeast edge of campus. The last in a series of programs commemorating the end of World War II will bring together vivid recollections by local civilians of the top secret blast and the aftereffects. They lived as close as 15 miles from Ground Zero in the ranching community of Bingham and along the Rio Grande Valley in San Antonio and San Antonito next to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, 25 miles away.
These eyewitnesses are members of the Gonzalez and Padilla families who rushed outside in the predawn and observed the mushroom cloud expand and linger over their ranches all morning while the ashen fallout rained throughout the afternoon. The Gonzalez and Padilla eyewitnesses have not shared their personal experiences publicly. Members of the Baca and Coker families will describe how their way of life was severely impacted by the Trinity Test. Their profound stories reveal unreported and untold significance that questions the selection of the Trinity Site and the decisions to not evacuate the local residents.
Tech’s Library’s WWII 60th anniversary program series has included presentations as diverse as the Navajo Code-talkers and the Bataan Death March. The programs have been greatly enhanced by the veterans and survivors present. “Trinity: Too Close for Comfort” will begin at 7:00 PM, upstairs in Tech Library Room 212, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro. For further information, call 505-835-5766.
These eyewitnesses are members of the Gonzalez and Padilla families who rushed outside in the predawn and observed the mushroom cloud expand and linger over their ranches all morning while the ashen fallout rained throughout the afternoon. The Gonzalez and Padilla eyewitnesses have not shared their personal experiences publicly. Members of the Baca and Coker families will describe how their way of life was severely impacted by the Trinity Test. Their profound stories reveal unreported and untold significance that questions the selection of the Trinity Site and the decisions to not evacuate the local residents.
Tech’s Library’s WWII 60th anniversary program series has included presentations as diverse as the Navajo Code-talkers and the Bataan Death March. The programs have been greatly enhanced by the veterans and survivors present. “Trinity: Too Close for Comfort” will begin at 7:00 PM, upstairs in Tech Library Room 212, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro. For further information, call 505-835-5766.