- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 62
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1983-02-18
- Subject:
- Nuclear power plants
Georgia--Politics and government
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003
Environmentalism
Nuclear reactors - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, South Carolina, Aiken County, Savannah River Site, 33.28778, -81.723
United States, South Carolina, Allendale County, Savannah River Site
United States, South Carolina, Barnwell County, Savannah River Site, 33.2120007, -81.6225623268716 - Medium:
- radio programs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This recording opens with an introduction of the program by Boyd Lewis. The entire program is a story focusing on the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in North Augusta, South Carolina about the expansion of a nuclear plant and the conflict between the need for jobs and the health of the environment. The plant in question is the Savannah River Plant. The program features audio excerpts from South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond; Georgia Senator Mack Mattingly; Savannah River Plant manager Robert Morgan; Jim Setzer of the Georgia Environmental Protection Agency; Troy Wade of the U.S. Department of Energy; H. L Weeks, mayor of Aiken, South Carolina; Ken Matthews of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce; South Carolina Attorney General Travis Medlock; and Thomas Cochrane of the Natural Resource Defense Council. The program ends with a sign off by Boyd Lewis.
"Southwind" was a radio program about the issues, people, and culture of the South that aired on WABE-FM, Atlanta's public radio station. The series, which aired from 1980 to 1987, was conceived, produced, and reported by journalist Boyd Lewis. - Local Identifier:
- MSS 1118.062.001
ahc.1118.062.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/126
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright is held by Boyd Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- 7 in. reel-to-reel audio tape, 3 3/4 ips
29:30 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
