William D. Ruckelshaus Oral History Project
An oral history of the career of William D. Ruckelshaus, the first and fifth administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, whose career parallels the growth of the environmental movement in the United States.
Douglas Brinkley, a noted historian who has written several books on U.S. environmental history, conducted more than seven hours of interviews with Ruckelshaus in 2011. The interviews span his entire career, beginning in the office of the Indiana attorney general in 1960, when he was assigned to the Indiana Board of Health. It was that experience that made clear to him the link between pollution and its impact on health.
The oral history is available through the special collections branch of libraries at the University of Washington and Washington State University. It is also available to view online in the TVW archives:
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The Ruckelshaus Oral History Project was supported by:
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