The Long Walk of Fred Young

Jan 11, 1979 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

As a child, Fred Young hunted birds and wild animals with primitive weapons, spoke only the Indian languages Ute and Navajo, went to a medicine man when he was sick, and slept under the stars. NOVA profiles Dr. Frederick Young, now a nuclear physicis... (more)t working on the laser fusion project at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.

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