Fifteen-year-old Tom Rutherford’s gate pass

Courtesy of Liz Rutherford.

Liz writes: “Young teen residents were required to have an ID to enter Los Alamos. The USAF sent this card to the AEC, who routed it to my dad at N-6 at LASL, when my brother was killed in 1958. This card survived the Cerro Grande fire because I had taken it to Denver to show friends.”