OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — At just 20 years old, the United States Government chose Chattanooga native Ed Westcott to take photographs for the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge.
“He has 15,250 negatives on cold storage in the National Archives. We have several hundred of them here in Oak Ridge but not all of them,” said Ray Smith, Oak Ridge Historian.
General Leslie Groves assigned Westcott to document the work being done at K-25, Y-12 and the X-10 Graphite Reactor, now more commonly known as Oak Ridge National Laboratory…