In 1989, following the FBI raid on the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Colorado’s first special federal grand jury began reviewing evidence gathered during the investigation. Thirty years later, Westword reported on another troubling chapter in that history: attorneys seeking access to records considered by the grand jury were told that federal officials could not confirm where the requested records were located. The Rocky Flats grand jury The special grand jury was impane

Long after the FBI's historic 1989 raid on the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, the agent who helped lead that investigation was still asking questions about what happened there—and whether the land surrounding the former plant should be opened to the public. In its May 2016 feature “Rogue Agent,” 5280 magazine profiled former FBI special agent Jon Lipsky and examined his continuing involvement with Rocky Flats nearly three decades after the raid. , The Investigation That C

Rocky Flats is a place many Coloradans drive past without knowing what once stood there—or why its history continues to matter. Half-Life of Memory is a documentary by Colorado artist and filmmaker Jeff Gipe that examines the history and legacy of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant through archival material and interviews with people whose lives intersect with its story. Gipe himself grew up near Rocky Flats, where his father worked. Telling the story through the people wh