Committee for Environmental Information 1972-1973

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Committee for Environmental Information, 1972-1973

Title

Committee for Environmental Information 1972-1973

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http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc029

Abstract

The four interviews in the project discuss the creation of the Committee for Environmental Information. The interviewees talk about how they became involved in the group and the politics that they had to deal with along the way. Also discussed are the political and military situations of the time.

Extent

4 interviews; Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials

Languages

eng,

Holding Repository

Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6625133

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