The Role of a Shelby Native in the Manhattan Project

By Geo Thelen Guest Writer SHELBY, NE —- Standing outside Dr. John Ray Dunning’s boyhood home on Oak Street in the village of Shelby, Nebraska, it’s hard to imagine the lasting impact a young man living here in the first quarter of the 20th century (and transmitting the area’s first radio broadcasts from its’rooftop) would have on the world of atomic energy. According to Dunning’s 1975 obituary…

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