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Jan 2022
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EP164: The Manhattan Project: The Story ...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Richard Cook tells us the story of how in 1943 the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee was established and went from 58,000 acres of farm land to a town of 75,000 people.

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