<B>FREDERICK (FRED) J. FRAIKOR.</B> Born 1937. <B
<b>FREDERICK (FRED) J. FRAIKOR.</b> Born 1937. <b>Transcript</b> of <b>OH 1359V A-B</b> This interview was recorded on June 16, 2005, for the Maria Rogers Oral History Program and the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum. The interviewer is Hannah Nordhaus. The interview is also available in video format, filmed by Hannah Nordhaus. The interview was transcribed by Sandy Adler. NOTE: Interviewer’s questions and comments appear in parentheses. Added material appears in brackets. [A]. 00:00 (OK, we’re recording. This is the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum Oral History Project. I’m interviewing Fred Fraikor. I’m Hannah Nordhaus. It’s the 16th of June, 2005. We’re at Fred’s office at the Colorado School of Mines, where he teaches.) (Fred, to get started, if you could just tell me a little bit about your background, where you were born, what your parents did.) OK. I was born in a steel town called Ducaine, Pennsylvania, which is one of the suburbs of Pittsburgh. My parents, although my dad grew up here, were of Slovak—back then it was Czechoslovakia—origin. My dad, like all the other immigrants at the time, would run back and forth, they’d make their money in the coal mines and the steel mills and then they’d go back to Czechoslovakia, buy up land, and come back here. What they didn’t realize was that the Communists would then confiscate the land, which is why I’m not a big land baron at this point. He brought my mother back here in 1936, just before World War II, when the Nazis invaded.
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