20181024-1_Forgotten Civilians of Eglin Air Force Base, Jon Kalish

During the Vietnam War the U.S. military defoliated large swaths of Vietnam with Agent Orange to deprive enemy forces of jungle cover. In the process it exposed American soldiers to this toxic chemical as well.

Our own civilians back in the U.S. were also exposed to Agent Orange, along with other herbicides. They were involved in testing herbicides at an Air Force base in Florida throughout the 1960s. Dozens of civilians involved in the testing at the base say that more than 40 years after their exposure, they are ill and dying. (Billy McLean (L) and Von Jones pictured. Credit: Jon Kalish)

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Jon Kalish reports from the Florida panhandle on Agent Orange and “The Forgotten Civilians of Eglin Air Force Base.”

Radio report by independent Journalist Jon Kalish

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