Nuclear Family Episode 1- Rev 9

S C R I P T
SERIES TITLE: A Nuclear Family – Y-12 National Security Complex
EPISODE: Episode 1 - I’ve Seen It
VERSION: Rev 9
DATE: Friday, 4 November 2011 - 10:25 AM
CLIENT: Ray Smith (SRD) o: 576-7781
PRODUCER: Casey Guinan (GC3) o: 574-2885 p: 916-1726
SCRIPTWRITER: Mary Beth Roberts (MLB) o: 574-9237 p: 916-1179
EDITOR: Buck Kahler (KD1) p: 916-1177
LENGTH: 26:40
SC # VIDEO AUDIO
1
Cold Open
Images of present day Y-12,
perhaps a wide shot time lapse as
sun rises on Complex
Images of Oak Ridge landscape
Images of present day Y-12,
perhaps of some Y-12s doing their
jobs and some footage of Volunteer
Day
:22
:19
Female Talent, 35 to 40
VO:
In Bear Creek valley in East Tennessee, Y-12
sits quietly… always vigilant… doing what it
does best – keeping our Nation… and our
world secure.
These ridges and valleys that Oak Ridge calls
home are accustomed to vigilance… and
sacrifice… and no sacrifice was greater
than those made by the original residents of
this area.
Y-12 can never forget this… that’s why every
year the Y-12 National Security Complex
gives back to these communities that have
sacrificed so much…

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1a These are the stories of those people who
helped to end the greatest war the world
had ever seen...
Stories from (of) A Nuclear Family...
2 Transition to:
Graphic Open
Graphic animation begins of an acorn in the
earth that sprouts. Branches begin to develop
and leaf. Within selected leaves, video clips of
interviews appear as the oak tree grows. The
video clips are of the sections of interviews that
state - “We were a family with a purpose,” “It
was like a family,” “the weapons business in
that era of 1982 was that everybody was a
family,” etc. The animation completes with a full
grown oak tree.
GFX:
A Nuclear Family
Y-12 National Security Complex
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
I’ve seen it…
:30
2a Transition to:
GFX:
Y-12 logo
Transition to:
PBS Viewers
Transition to:
Thank you.
:15
VO:
Funding for this program was provided in
support of the National Historic Preservation
Act by the Y-12 National Security Complex…
Making the world a safer place.
And by viewers like you…
Thank you.
3 Transition to:
Images of farms and community
before Oak Ridge
Reenactment of two boys
(portraying John Rice Irwin and his
brother) fishing, and then chasing
hogs around pen or stirring cast pot,
carving soap.
:16
VOC - John Rice Irwin 1:
01:14:17 - :14:33
It was such a glorious time, something I
thought exciting all the time, we were
fishing or sanding in the creeks or we
were butchering hogs or helping my
grandmother make soap and then
carving the soap to wash with.

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4
Black and white images of the
landscape
Images of the Cherokee
Images of settlements and/or
plowing
:13
VO:
Before the atom came to these ridges and
valleys in East Tennessee, life was simple and
hard...
Land where the Cherokees’ once lived and
hunted had long been settled by white
pioneers and plowed for crops.
5 Don Raby on camera
LT:
Donald Raby
VOC – Donald Raby:
Well, my ancestors settled in New Hope
area on Chestnut Ridge in 1888.
6
Images of pioneer farms and life
ORPL # CON 0195.PSD
:04
VO:
From these pioneer farms and settlements,
communities grew…
7 Ray Smith on camera
LT:
D. Ray Smith
Y-12 Historian
:22
VOC – Ray Interview 1:
01:14:07;05 - :14:39;16
There was the Wheat Community over
near East Tennessee Technology Park,
which was the K-25 site. There’s the
New Bethel community which is over
near the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. The New Hope community
which is here in Bear Creek Valley very
near where Y-12 is today. And, there
was Robertsville, that’s in the middle of
what’s now the city of Oak Ridge.
8
Images of Scarboro :06
VO:
Places like Elza, Scarboro, Gamble Valley,
Oliver Springs… each had a rich sense of
community.
9 Naomi Brummett on camera
LT:
Naomi Brummett
VOC - Naomi Brummett
Well, I was born in Roane County, and
our address was Wheat, Tennessee, and
Wheat was a very historical little place.
A college center at one time.

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10
Photo of college
ORPL # ES 0060.psd, ORPL # ES
0690.psd, ORPL # ES 0070.psd
Images of fruit tree orchard
Old cannery
ORPL # ES 0310.psd
Images of Wheat community
ORPL # ES 0710.psd
GFX: on fruit trees or images of fruit
trees that seem dead
:37
VOC – Ray interview 1
01:15:14;00 - :15:51;08 (tighten)
There was a boarding school for high
school students. The Roane College
was there back in the ‘20s, 1920s. There
was also a very large fruit, many fruit
orchards and a fruit cannery a lot of,
they actually shipped fruit to many
places from right there in the Wheat
area… but the weather changed
sometime in the late ‘20s and killed all of
their fruit trees.
11 Ray on camera
:04
01:27:39:00 - :27:43;28
So they just figured that God didn’t
want them to grow any more fruit trees.
So they’d just go do something else.
12 Images of farming
Image of a General Store
:03
VO:
Strong and steadfast, they found ways to
persevere…
A small few set up shop to offer their
neighbors goods and services…
13
Images of Nash-Copeland General
Store
ORPL # ES 0720.psd
Ray on camera
:20
01:26:08;26 - :24:30;24
There were a few that were merchants
that had little stores. The Nash-
Copeland was one of the more famous
ones. It was located over near
Robertsville. And there were other little
stores, general stores, general
merchandise stores, but by and large
everyone farmed.
14
John R. Irwin on camera
LT:
John Rice Irwin
:22
VOC – John Rice Irwin:
01:12:29 - :12:51
gosh, I remember I was plowing when I
was eight years old with a mule and a
team, and one of the jobs was to hunt
the eggs every night and my
grandmother was very insistent that we
get all the eggs.

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15
Charlie Manning on camera
LT:
Charlie Manning
Reenactment of hands (and feet)
trying to catch chickens
Dog tied up next to fence barking to
camera
:34
VOC - Charlie Manning:
02:37:17 - :37:51
I remember my grandpa used to laugh.
He’d always tell about back then they
didn’t have much and they tried to take
care of it. He said they used to, people
back then didn’t have much, and they
would steal your chickens. And said he
started to lose a lot of chickens, and
somebody was stealing his chickens. He
said, “I’ll take care of that.” And said he
had a real mean dog, and said he tied
that dog up to his chicken house, and
he’d laugh about it, and said he never
did lose any more chickens
16
Images of people working the land,
carting produce to Market,
and/or farm wives doing laundry,
cooking
:17
VO:
People had to work hard for what little they
got… basic supplies were hard to find and
expensive.
Bread cost 8 cents a loaf. Milk was 23 cents
for a half-a-gallon. And, at 35 cents a dozen,
eggs were a half a day’s work.
17 John Rice Irwin on camera
:12
It's just unbelievable. You could take a
man all day to make enough money
working on a farm to buy two dozen
eggs.
18 Charlie Manning on camera
:14
VOC - Charlie Manning:
02:34:29 - :34:43
….and if they had a little money about
once a year the people who had
money would take a wagon and go
across, they call it across the ridge to
Oliver Springs, to ole man Zinknicks, and
they’d buy a load of coal,
19
Image of children at school house :07
VO:
Making money was a challenge and, at
times, so was just getting to school.

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20 Wilma Brooks on camera
LT:
Wilma Brooks
Reenactment horse and buggy
stuck in mud with little girl sitting in
the seat.
:30
VOC – Wilma Brooks:
My grandfather was called up to the
judge in Clinton for not sending his
daughter to school. At that time she
rode a horse and buggy to school, and
the judge asked him why he didn’t send
her to school, and he says, “Well, it was
so muddy that she couldn’t ride in the
horse and buggy. It was too muddy for
the mules or the horses to pull the
wagon. Don’t you think it was too
muddy for my daughter to walk to
school?” And the judge agreed with
him
21 Elmer Brummitt on camera
LT:
Elmer Brummitt
:30
VOC – Elmer Brummitt:
01:06:05 - :06:35
Well they had an old school bus that
came through and actually back then it
was made out of, it wasn’t metal or
anything like this, just a wood made
from framed out in planks or whatever
they did back in those days, and the
seats were not like they are today in the
newer ones. It was just a row up the
center. You set on either side, and on
each side there was a like a bench up
through there.
22
Images of New Bethel Church,
Wheat Church
:08
VO:
At the very heart were their churches. Each
community had their own denomination.
These served as places of fellowship and
worship.
…And neighbors were happy to help one
another…
23 Wilma Brooks on camera VOC – Wilma Brooks:
My grandfather also had a horse and
buggy that he took people to church in
and later of course a truck, a flatbed
truck, a big truck that people would
gather and he would pick up
everybody as he came to the church,
and they would all ride the truck.

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24 Naomi Brummett on camera VOC – Naomi Brummett:
Mr. Ed Wright drove a truck and picked
us up and took us to church.
25 Image of 40’s stake bed truck
Naomi Brummett on camera
VOC – Naomi Brummett:
it would have been 1940 model
probably, ’41, and it had banisters, a
bed with banisters, and sometimes there
would be I would say 12, 15 maybe
more than that
people standing. We couldn’t sit. We
had to stand on the open truck,
26
:29
01:21:31 - :22:00
My dad always on Sunday morning, we
always went to church and Sunday
school, but we were up at the crack of
dawn, 4 o’clock, so I had to milk a
whole bunch of cows and feed the
chickens and hogs and all like that, then
separate the milk, turn the old
separator, and after we did that it
would be 8:30 or 9 and we had a
couple of hours before church
27 Images of New Hope Baptist
:08
VO:
In all of these communities, one house of
worship stood out. For on Sunday evenings,
this church opened its doors to young
people… the Baptist church in the
community of New Hope…
28 Louis Freels on camera
LT:
Louis Freels-Reed
:33
VOC - Louis Freels:
02:02:23 - :02:56
and then at night time on Sunday night
the young people would gather from
Scarboro around, and we would walk
and go to New Hope, and other young
people from around New Hope at other
communities would gather there too. It
was sort of a gathering place.

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29 Charlie Manning on camera
:10
VOC – Charlie Manning:
02:18:24 - :18:34
they would come over to the New Hope
Baptist Church for Sunday school, and I
never will forget her talking about the
preacher there. His name was Billy
Hightower.
:14
01:15:55 - :16:06
Mr. Hightower was a preacher over
there, and he was fishing on Sunday
while he was not using the old rod and
reel.
Reenactment of man down by the
river with what looks to be dynamite,
starts to toss it…
Graphic transition like the dynamite
explodes
If his family was hungry he could
through a stick of dynamite in the river
and it would—the fish burst a little
whatever you call it in there and it
caused them to float to the top they
said.
:15
01:16:09 - :16:24
Well his charge went off in his hand, and
he lost his hands.
33
:07
VO:
But to his congregation, Preacher Hightower
proved that you didn’t need a set of hands
to reach out and touch a community…
34 Naomi Brummett on camera VOC - Naomi Brummett:
And we were so close in the
community. It was sort of a story book
thing that you don’t really experience
anymore, but if there was a need in the
family there was always somebody
there to help in any illness, new birthing
of babies, a death.
…and it was just a good life.

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35 Beauty footage of landscape VO:
As with most communities, this area had its
share of interesting folks… certainly a
preacher fishing with dynamite might top the
list, but there were others… one of those
more colorful residents was also from New
Hope. John Hendrix was his name. And, in
1865…
36 Ray on camera
:43
01:05:17;14 - :05:25;01
He was born right here in Bear Creek
Valley right in the most protected part
of Y-12 is today.
37 Elmer Brummittt on camera
:13
VOC – Elmer Brummittt:
01:32:24 - :32:28
but they thought the guy was crazy.
38
:08
VO:
Hendrix was considered insane by many in
the area… while others thought of him more
as a prophet than crazy.
39
:04
VO:
John Hendrix lived with his wife, Julia, and his
4 children. But, shortly after the turn of the 20th
Century, tragedy struck the family.
40
:22
VOC – Ray Smith:
01:05:31;00 - :05:45;09
In 1900, his youngest daughter died. This
really upset John because his wife
accused him of being the reason she
died. Because he had corrected the
child the day before.
41
:34
VO:
John and Julia’s 2 year old daughter, Ethel,
actually died from diphtheria, but Julia still
blamed him.

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42
:17
VOC – Ray Smith:
01:05:45;09 - :05:52;14
His wife got mad at him, took the rest of
the children, and went to Arkansas, and
never came back.
43 Footage of Bethal Valley Church
from OHP - Hendrix :08
VO:
Guilt-ridden and distraught, John turned to his
faith.
44 Footage of church continues then…
Transition to Ray on camera
:04
VOC – Ray Smith:
01:05:54;10 - :06:07;26
So, he prayed to God wanting to know
why this is happening to him. During
one of those prayers he heard a voice,
a loud voice, telling him to go sleep on
the ground for 40 nights and he’d learn
the future of this place.
45 Footage of the reenactment from
OHP - Hendrix :06
VO:
Going up into the woods of Pine Ridge,
Hendrix did as the voice commanded. He
stayed with his head to the ground for 40
days and 40 nights…
46 Ray on camera
:04
VOC – Ray Smith:
01:06:07;26 - :06:14;18
Now it must have been in the winter
time because as the story goes, his hair
froze to the ground.
47
:08
VO:
When John Hendrix had finished his 40 nights
of sleeping on the ground, he had
tremendous stories to tell.
48
:14
VOC – Ray Smith:
01:08:45;15 - :09:01;01
He’d tell anyone who would listen. He’d
tell them that there was going to be a
huge factory built in the Bear Creek
Valley that will help win the greatest war
that will ever be. Going to be a city
built on Black Oak Ridge. Going to be a
railroad spur run right down his property
line.

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49 Footage of farm land with same filter
treatment as with the “dream
sequences” from OHP - Hendrix
:07
VO – Ray Smith:
01:09:09;07 - :09:14;24
And that the seat of power for all of this
is going to be between Pyatt’s place
and Tadlock’s farm.
50 Corresponding sequence from OHP
- Hendrix :07
VO – Talent recording from OHP Hendrix:
Big engine’s will dig big ditches…
Thousands of people will be running to
and fro. They will build things and there
will be great noise and confusion and
the earth will shake.
I’ve seen it. It is coming.
51 Footage from OHP – “John” walks
out of cabin puts on his hat. :05
VO:
As he told of his visions, his neighbors would
just shake their heads…
Little did they know that John had just
predicted the end of World War II… a war
that wouldn’t start for another 40 years…
52
WWII footage without US
Japan in China
USSR
Germans in Normandy
Roosevelt and Churchill
Japanese aircraft flying
VO:
At the turn of the decade of 1940, there was a
war going on overseas... Japan was at war with
China, the USSR was at war with Finland, and
Germany had just invaded Denmark and
Normandy. But, the United States was able to
stay neutral in these conflicts...
That is until the unthinkable happened...
Images of Pearl Harbor
Images of FDR making a speech
:15 VOC - Naomi Brummett:
…we were out for a Sunday evening
little ride, came in with the radio on
listening to Gene Autrey, and there was
breaking news on the radio that Pearl
Harbor had been attacked and we are
at war. I remember Franklin D. Roosevelt
making that announcement. So things
really changed then.

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54 VO:
The United States was now at war... and over
night, thousands of our sons, brothers, fathers,
and husbands were being sent to the front
lines in the greatest war of its time.
A war that was escalating beyond what
anyone could imagine... and one brilliant
American mind recognized the imminent
danger and warned of its coming...
55
Images of Albert Einstein
The 1
st
letter Einstein wrote to
Roosevelt
:07
01:01:52;25 - :02:05;19
Albert Einstein wrote that letter to
President Roosevelt saying that
Germany is buying up all this Uranium
ore and he was afraid that they were
trying to build a bomb.
56 Roosevelt’s response letter to
Einstein :07
VO:
And, if Germany was making a nuclear
weapon, both Roosevelt and Einstein knew
that the US needed to beat the Germans to
it. Roosevelt also knew it was going to be an
expensive undertaking…
57 Images of FDR and DC in the 1940s
:14
VO:
And all that funding had to be kept under
the radar so as to not draw attention to the
project. FDR knew exactly who could quietly
hide the money needed for the Manhattan
Project in other Federal projects… So, the
President called up his friend - the Senator
from Tennessee, Kenneth McKellar …

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58 Ray on camera
:07
01:02:28;01 - :03:02;03
… and he said, “Senator, I need to put
a large amount of money against the
War effort. And, I can’t let the press or
anyone else know how much it is or
what it’s being used for. Can you help
me with that?” Senator McKellar said,
“Yes, Mr. President. I can do that for
you. Just where in Tennessee are you
going to put that thing?”
59 Images of first hints of progress
:16
VO:
And, in 1942, farmers began to notice
unusual happenings in these valleys.
60
Images of rail line being built
John Rice Irwin on camera
:05
VOC - John Rice Irwin 2:
01:38:48 - :39:02
They built a little spur line off of the main
railroad at Elza Gate and people were
wondering about why they, you know,
there is no community there, why are
they building this rail line.
61
Image of surveyors
Images of land
And images of the homes
:23
VOC - Elmer Brummitt:
…surveyors came in there, and they
were surveying all this land and getting
the names of the owners and all of the
buildings and taking pictures of all the
buildings.
:12
01:39:48 - :40:08
But then we noticed that over in the
field from us they were building some
sort of a little shed, a reinforced,
concrete block, concrete I guess, and
they said it was a place to store
explosives. We couldn't understand
that.
:37
VOC - Elmer Brummitt:
So we were wondering, people were
wondering what’s going on…

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Don Raby on camera
VOC – Donald Raby:
—the Scarboro family talked about—
their mother told one of the girls to take
some water out to the men that were
working out there and said, “Just go out
there and take this water out there for
them working and just listen and see
what you can learn.” Of course they
didn’t know anything either. No one
really knew anything.
65
Images of early Oliver Springs
Reenactment of two boys legs
running down a dirt road
:11
VO:
The answers came to one community just
north of where Oak Ridge is today from a
certain Senator… as two boys were playing
hooky from school…
66 Ray on camera VOC – Ray Interview 1:
01:03:32;11 - :03:47;28
they were walking down the Main Street
of the little town, Oliver Springs. And,
they walked by the telephone office.
Telephone operator leaned her head
out and said, “Lester, go get the
Principle. He’s got an important phone
call.”
67
:05
01:03:52;14 - :04:26;20
He went and got the Principal. The
Principal came over and took that
phone call, went back to the school,
called all of the students together in an
assembly, and said, “I just got a phone
call from Senator McKellar. He wants
me to tell you to go home and tell your
parents that you are going to have to
find a new place to live. The
government’s going to take your
property for the war effort.”
68
Reenactment of notice being served
(MCU US Army Soldier arm as it
hands the notice to another hand
and arm dressed in overalls)
CU of notice saying “necessary for
you to move”
:14
VO:
Senator McKellar’s attempts to forewarn his
fellow Tennesseans could only reach so far…
and some folks of these communities had to
find out in a less neighborly way…

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69 Ray on camera VOC – Ray Interview 1:
01:04:26;20 - :04:31;02
In a matter of days, they were getting
notices tacked up on their doors that
said they had three weeks to get off of
their property.
70
Reenactment as family step up on
the porch (backs to us, don’t see
faces)
CU of notice flapping in the breeze
attached to front door as hand
reaches in frame to pluck the notice
from the door
OTS reading notice
Back to John Rice Irwin on camera
:20
VO John Rice Irwin 2:
01:47:54 – :43:06
I remember we came up to our front
door with my mother and dad and my
brother and there was a piece of paper
attached to the screen door, flapping in
the wind . . .
01:44:07 - :44:31
“The War Department intends to take
possession of your farm on December 1,
1942 that's from November the 11th to
December 1st. It will be necessary for
you to move not later than that date,“
period and they were given to my
knowledge no assistance whatsoever.
:02
VOC - Elmer Brummitt 1:
All of a sudden they gave you a notice
you had to be out of there within a
certain amount of time.
72 Images of crops in the fields,
farmers in the fields
Naomi Brummett on camera
VOC – Naomi Brummett 7:
We were supposed to be out of this
area by December 31st 1942, and the
men who had crops in their fields didn’t
have time to harvest the crops. Some of
them didn’t get out in time, and they
would bulldoze the fence down and the
cattle would run free.
:12
VOC – Wilma Brooks:
My mother’s mother passed away I think
in February of 1942. When they came
home from the funeral there was an
eviction notice on the door that they
had to be out of their home in 18 days.

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73.5
Jack Rains on camera
LT:
Jack Rains
:15
Jack Rains:
03:40 – 03:55
I remember us having a meeting in the
house and they told us the government
was taking over again, mom and dad
did, and they were going with someone
to look to see if they could find a house
out in the county where we could
move.
74 Don Raby on camera VOC – Don Raby:
75 Images of surveyors
Images of properties
Transition to footage of WWII
:34
VO:
A company called The Kingston Demolition
Project was making offers on some 60,000
acres on behalf of the War Department…
76 Elmer Brummett on camera
:12
VOC - Elmer Brummitt 1
01:30:11 - :30:17
Well, out of a mere 50 acres, 40 plus, he
only got about $4000
:05
VOC - Naomi Brummett
My mother had 40 acres of land, and
she got $900 for 40 acres of land, but
she didn’t get that right away. They
didn’t pay off when you left. It was
months before that. So people just had
to move in with relatives or anywhere
they could find a place to live.
78
Images of the construction of Norris
Dam
Images of houses before the dam
was completed and homes were
flooded
:12
:24
01:15:55;15 - :16:13;15
Course, before the Manhattan Project
there was the Tennessee Valley
Authority’s project with Norris Dam. And
that displaced a lot of people. Many
people that moved from the Norris
Dam, what became the Norris Dam
area, moved down here…
:05
VOC – Wilma Wright Brooks:
My mother was Tressie Stooksbury
Wright, and her family came from the
Loiston area of Norris Dam. They were
moved out of there in ’33, and I
remember my mother telling me that
her father grieved for two years
because his family had been on that
land for 200 years.

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:05
VOC – Wilma Wright Brooks:
My mother was Tressie Stooksbury
Wright, and her family came from the
Loiston area of Norris Dam. They were
moved out of there in ’33, and I
remember my mother telling me that
her father grieved for two years
because his family had been on that
land for 200 years.
79.5
:09
Jack Rains:
00:00:38 – 00:47
I was one of eight children, and we
were living at Norris Lake out at Demre
community when they started building
TVA.
80 John Rice Irwin on camera VOC – John Rice Irwin:
We lived there, my family did, and all
my folks and I was related to everyone
there and everyone knew everyone
else and it was a traumatic thing when
in 1933 and ’34 they bought us all the
land for the building of Norris Dam and
my family and many of my kinfolks, I
guess there was 10 or 12, or 15 families
moved down the valley to where Oak
Ridge is now located.
81 Ray on camera
Images of Cades Cove before the
national park
01:16:27;20 - :16:54;12
Some of those people who had to
move from Norris down here because of
the dam and then had to move from
the Oak Ridge area because of the
Manhattan Project, about 20 years
earlier had had to move out of the
Smokey Mountains especially out of
Cades Cove. So don’t you know those
people that were moving thought that
the government just come along every
10 years and told them to go find
another place to live.
82 Wilma Brooks on camera VOC – Wilma Wright Brooks:
So they had to replace themselves
somewhere else again, and the
grandparents were not real happy with
the government at that time.
:10
VOC - Elmer Brummitt 1:
Of course a lot of people they didn’t
like that and they had to be forced out.

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84
Ray on camera
Americans fighting in WWII
:06
01:04:34;07 - :05:03;15
Many of them didn’t have automobiles.
They didn’t have trucks to move their
belongings. If they had an automobile,
they might not have tires for it or they
might not be able to buy gas for it. Those
things were rationed. But, what they did
have was young men that were in the
military that were being killed every week.
And, they knew that they needed to do
anything they could to help win the war.
So they got off their property in a matter of
weeks.
85 Naomi Brummett on camera VOC – Naomi Brummett:
I don’t bear a grudge about that
because it’s been a blessing. It really
has.
:18
01:50:38 - :50:51
So I went out, when I left Oak Ridge, I
had anticipated to be back in a day or
two. As it turned out, I never did get
back until the whole thing was built in
1949 or so
87
Image of Army talking to farmers
Image of General Groves
overlooking construction
Images of early construction of the
sites
Footage of John Hendrix feet
walking through the woods
VO:
As the last truckload of family possessions
drove out of the area, the Army rolled in and
began building. And, four mysteriously
named facilities – Y-12, S-50, X-10, and K-25 –
came to be.
And, a man from Bear Creek Valley turned
out to be… well, not quite so insane…

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88
Elmer Brummitt on camera
Footage of Hendrix from OHP
VOC - Elmer Brummittt:
01:32:47 - :33:06
the railroads were coming in, the plants
were being built, and the purpose of it,
for the material for the bomb, and he
specified in there that the plants would
produce a material that would bring to
the end World War II.
01:31:27 - :31:35
and then that’s when my dad said he
knew Mr. Hendrix and he said, “Well this
is prophesied.”
89 Transition to Ray on camera
Historical footage of early
construction on Admin Bldg
Footage of the Administration
Building
Footage of Federal Office Building
Footage of railroad spur
Entrance to Hendrix Creek
Subdivision
Early image of Y-12
Early images of Y-12 and Little Boy
:27
VOC – Ray interview 1:
01:09:15;04 - :09:57;10
Now, John died in 1915. But in 1942,
when the Manhattan Project came in
here, the first shovel of full of dirt they
dug was right between Pyatt’s place
and Tadlock’s farm. That’s where they
built the Administration Building. That’s
where the Federal Office Building is
today. That City on Black Oak Ridge is
called Oak Ridge. That railroad spur
runs right down his property line in
Hendrix Creek Subdivision just off
Lafayette Avenue, named for him. And,
of course Y-12 is where the Uranium was
separated for Little Boy, the first atomic
bomb ever used in warfare, that did
help win World War II.
90
More images of Y-12
VO:
Some forty years later, John Hendrix’s visions
became reality…
91
:04
Hendrix voice:
“I’ve seen it. It is coming…”
92 Transition to:
Images of present day Y-12
following VO
NOTE: This might be better
delivered if Ray delivers this on
camera through “It’s unclear if
Hendrix could see today’s Y-12, but
if he did,” then transition to images
of present day Y-12.
:19
VO:
It’s unclear if Hendrix could see today’s Y-12,
but if he did he would see quite a difference
from the “huge factory” of his visions. The Y-
12 National Security Complex is now focused
on broader missions and actively works in
support of this community created as a result

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92 Transition to:
Images of present day Y-12
following VO
NOTE: This might be better
delivered if Ray delivers this on
camera through “It’s unclear if
Hendrix could see today’s Y-12, but
if he did,” then transition to images
of present day Y-12.
Pause briefly then…
:19
VO:
It’s unclear if Hendrix could see today’s Y-12,
but if he did he would see quite a difference
from the “huge factory” of his visions. The Y-
12 National Security Complex is now focused
on broader missions and actively works in
support of this community created as a result
of World War II.
is dedicated to making our nation… and the
world… a safer place to live.
93
Transition to graphic background
GFX:
www.y12.doe.gov
:15
(m ax)
VO:
To find out more about Y-12, Oak Ridge and
their history, please visit w-w-w dot y-twelve
dot d-o-e dot gov.
94 GFX:
Program credits
:30
(m ax)
95
Images of early construction
Image of farm land
Image of scientific research
Image of farmers
Image of 1940 soldiers
Image of simple living
Images of wartime
Ending with bomb drop
:18
VO:
With the first of the shovel of earth, a new
purpose begins for Bear Creek Valley… a
purpose that will transform this part of
Tennessee from farming to physics… from
civilian to military… from simple to the
biggest secret in the biggest war that this
country had ever seen.
96 Transition to:
Ray on camera
:07
VOC - Ray Smith:
01:58:26;26
During the Manhattan Project the word
“uranium” was classified. You couldn’t
say, “Uranium.”
97 Images of going through security
Image of boy getting his badge
:13
VO:
It was a whole new way of life… an Oak
Ridge way of life.
98
Transition to:
Bill Wilcox on camera
Note: We have permissions to use the sections
of VO where Bill says Dogpatch & Lil’ Abner,
but not the images from the comic strip.
:22
VOC - Bill Wilcox:
We knew we were going to some other
place and all through the summer we
referred to it as Dogpatch from the Lil’
Abner cartoon.

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99
Graphic open
Acorn growing faster without the audio speed
up.
:04
:15
:05
VO:
Next time on A Nuclear Family… The
Manhattan District…
SFX: of the interviews stating “we were like a family”
Hold for insert of station, date and time of airing
100 Transition to:
GFX:
Y-12 logo
Transition to:
PBS Viewers
Transition to:
Thank you.
:30
(m ax)
VO:
Funding for A Nuclear Family was provided in
support of the National Historic Preservation
Act by the Y-12 National Security Complex…
Making the world a safer place.
And by viewers like you…
Thank you.
101 Dissolve to black
End of Script

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