Johnson, Carl J.

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Name
Johnson, Carl J. Gender: M
Carl Jean Johnson
born on 2 July 1929 at 01:00 (= 01:00 AM )
Place Sims (Grant County), Indiana, 40n30, 85w51
Timezone CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source
BC/BR in hand
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.svg s_cancol.18.svg 09°54' s_mo.18.svg s_taucol.18.svg 06°37 Asc.s_taucol.18.svg 16°19'



Carl J. Johnson
photo: Refer to OTRS ticket., license cc-by-3.0

Biography

American public health physician who opposed nuclear testing. In 1976 he was the Director of the Jefferson County, Colorado Department of Health. He reported that soil around the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant contained 44 times more plutonium 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. He later won a whistleblower lawsuit against Jefferson County, Colorado. In 1985 he lost an election to become the Boulder County, Colorado Director of Health.

Johnson died on 29 December 1988, aged 59, in Lakewood, Colorado of complications following coronary bypass surgery.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

  • Work : Fired/Laid off/Quit 1981 (Fired)
  • Death by Disease 29 December 1988 (After surgery, age 59)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate from Indiana archives, copy on file.

Categories

  • Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Surgery (Coronary bypass surgery)
  • Vocation : Medical : Physician
  • Vocation : Politics : Candidate and lost
  • Vocation : Politics : Government employee