Exhibit J
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(Account of interview by Joseph G. Hoffman at Los Alamoss Hospital, 3:15 P.N.
May 17, 1948)
Q.
Do you think the injury to your hand is dus to radiation?
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I don't know.
I've done.
I've never had sores like this before from the work
I've lifted a lot of lead and think the lead may have
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brought it on. It's a deep bruise -~- it started out by reddening
and then blossomed out.
Q.
On vhat day aia you work in the Pacific, and how long was it after
the shot?
Ae
It was one and one-half hours after the shot.
Q.
Dia you veer rubber gloves?
A.
Ho, only green cotton gioves supplied by a group out there, a radiation sefsty group, I guess. There was @ supply of then.
Q.
How many drones did you help with?
A.
I took the top filters off of seven,
Q.
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You Were not associated with touching the lower filters or any other
part of the plans?
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A.
I took the lower filter peper cut after they vere removed.
Q.
How do you take hold of the filter uit?
A.
With both hands with a fore and eft lift, two pecple working, me
on each side, It's light, about twenty-five or thirty pounds, and
is easy to lift.
Q.
You waited for the drone to come in and the truck goes up and gets
the unit on the fork? Who pulled the lanyards?
Ae
gp far as I know.
Q.
Did you notice if there was a lot of gum on the gloves?
A.
{couldn't tell.
The gloves vere a dark green.
off, set them dow and moved away.
on the dark green.
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Q.
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We pulled the filters
Anything like that wouldn't show
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Whet was the time interval from the time you worked on the first drone
until the time the last drone was completed, so far as the removal
of the top filters was concernsda?
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