William E. Smith Interview, 11 July 2001(a)

 

the lights were on, and my understanding is that the capsule crew —or you could turn those lights on remotely, or the light at the site. But he said he passed that on the way and he saw, quote, what he said was “something standing up inside the fence.” So now, I took that to be the access hatch because that's the only thing I can think of from the photographs I have seen.

WS

Now, did he say that there was a response team on?

JK

Yes, that were just arriving as they were passing.

WS

Okay. Which site would that have been, then?

JK

That was Oscar-7.

WS

Oscar-7, okay.

JK

And that jibes because that's immediately south of Highway 5 there.

WS

Oscar-7, okay.

JK

That was one of the things I wanted to ask you if you recalled which one it was.

WS

I have no idea

JK

But that's pretty close to the LCF, a couple miles away really.

WS

I just knew it was—I'm trying to think. I want to say it was west. Let's see. I want to say it was west, but gosh, everything just get blurry after that. It was dark. At that point, you know, when I first went out there, I did a lot of the driving around. I became a supervisor, and after that I didn't do that much driving around.

JK

But those roads didn't change much.

WS

No, they didn't, but I was a supervisor. I started at Oscar just for a very short time, then I went to Mike, I stayed most of my time when I was on patrol at Mike, and then I came back to Oscar as a supervisor.

JK

Oh, I see.

WS

So I didn't really drive Oscar that much.

JK

Right, okay.

WS

Yeah. But at any rate, I’m surely not going to sit here and say that I remember all the specific details of that. Some of the things I do, of course, because I was directly

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