Carl J. Johnson (July 2, 1929 - December 29, 1988) Physician and Colonel in the US Army who opposed Nuclear testing
Marriage
He married Katherine Van Deusen (1923- ). Katherine was the daughter of Emmett Peter Van Deusen I (1878-1965) and Margaret McKenzie Barton (1885-1963).
US Army
He entered service in the US Army on July 03, 1946 and was discharged from service on March 18, 1949.
Education
He went to Michigan state University and the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He had a master's Degree in public health from the University of California at Berkeley.
Rocky Flats
In 1976 the county health officer, he reported that soil around the Rocky Flats plant contained 44 times more plutunium than the government claimed. In 1977 he reported higher-than-average rates of leukemia and cancer among the local people. In 1980 he reported that plant workers had eight times more brain tumors than expected. In 1981 he was fired. This may have been reported in the New York Times on December 18, 1988.
Burial
He was buried in the Fort Logan National Cemetery in Colorado on January 03, 1989.
Obituary
His obituary appeared in the New York Times on December 30, 1988, on page A18: "Dr. Carl J. Johnson, a public health official who attacked the Federal Government over the potentially dangerous effects of nuclear weapons testing, died of complications from heart surgery yesterday at Lutheran Memorial Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado He was 59 years old and lived in Lakewood."
Publications
- Carl J. Johnson, "Funding of Radiation Protection Standards Research", letter to the editor, American Journal of Public Health, February 1979.
- Carl J. Johnson, "Cancer Incidence in an Area of Radioactive Fallout Downwind from the Nevada Test Site", Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 251, Number 2, January 13, 1984.
- Carl J. Johnson, "Rocky Flats: Death Inc." The New York Times; Sunday, December 18, 1988, Op-ed E-23.
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