Greenpeace founder who protested nuclear testing at Amchitka dies at age 84


Wednesday, July 07 2010
Unalaska, AK – Today most people have probably never heard of Amchitka - it's just an unpopulated island at the end of Alaska's Aleutian Chain. But in the 1970s, it was a cause. The U.S. government selected Amchitka as a nuclear testing site, and suddenly the place inspired protests and music festivals. Jim Bohlen was a major leader in this anti-nuclear campaign and became a founder of Greenpeace. He died this week at age
84. Alexandra Gutierrez tells the story of his trip out to Amchitka as part of the first Greenpeace mission.