Ellen Reid moved to Los Alamos as a child when her father got a job at the lab. The first summer there her family was unable to get in a house because of a shortage so they lived in a large tent. In the Oral-History she talks about her childhood such as when she finally got a badge to the town. She talks about the town and why they would develop the hydrogen bomb after the atomic bomb. She talks about Norris Bradbury who would become her father- in-law.
Here she talks about an encounter with Oppenheimer after he lost his clearance.
Los Alamos Oral HIstory Project 