Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D157828-1
Date(s)
- 1970-02-19 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Petition. An extended petition is on display at KTVW, Channel 13, on February 19, 1970, registering a protest to the president of the United States. The signers of the petition were against the shipping of nerve gas from Okinawa to Hermiston, Oregon and "elsewhere." Signatures visible were obtained from residents of Edmonds down to Shelton. Senator Warren G. Magnuson was photographed with this, or a very similar petition, of 63,000 signatures and indicated that he was requesting an appointment with President Nixon to deliver the long scroll of names. The nerve gas, although destined for Oregon, would have to pass through Washington State. (TNT 3-1-70, C-23 - photograph of Magnuson with petition)
Petitions--Washington; KTVW (Tacoma); Television studios--Tacoma;