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Interview No. 598, Lady Astor

Combined Interviews

Interview from the Jack Parr Show

The Use Of Tape Recordings In Teaching Local History, Ruth Bates Rickett

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The problem of the thesis is to develop rationale for the teaching of local history in the schools through the use of recorded documentary statements by eyewitnesses to local events. As illustrative of this mode of teaching local history, a series of recordings are made in which the residents of the Pomona, California, area who were eyewitnesses to the local events or who could relate reliable hearsay about the history of Pomona are interviewed. A research methodology for the taking, editing, and cataloguing of these tape recordings for school use is developed and executed.

Interview No. 574, Oswald Shooting

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 326.6, Dick Rodriguez

Combined Interviews

Biographical comments; working in the Secret Service; information on the Columbus raid.

Interview No. 326.5, Mrs. Lee Riggs

Combined Interviews

Personal account of Columbus Raid; Henry Ford trial; biographical comments

Interview No. 326.4, Louis Ravel, Arthur Ravel

Combined Interviews

Events leading to and after the raid; biographical comments; Henry Ford and the Chicago Tribune.

Interview No. 326.3, Jack Breen

Combined Interviews

After being out of Columbus, he talks of his return to the town the day after the raid and about the information he gathered about the raid; General Pershing; the growth of Columbus after the raid; World War I; black troops stationed at Columbus; work with Customs Service 1920-1956; ordeal of being taken prisoner by Villa's men.

Interview No. 326.2, Maude Medders

Combined Interviews

Account of her capture and stay with villistas; Columbus raid.

Interview No. 326.1, Maude Medders, Juan Favela, Jack Breen

Combined Interviews

Personal accounts of the raid.

Interview No. 488.1, Sterling Rhodes

Combined Interviews

Southeastern New Mexico history, including ranches, events, Pat Garrett, Judge Fountain killing, A. B. Fall.

Interview No. 488.2, Kerbey S. Weems

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; travel to Texas in a covered wagon; experiences as a cowboy at the XIT ranch; went to New Mexico in 1882; talks about Pat Garrett; Billy the Kid; Oliver Lee; Jim Gillialand; the Judge Fountain killing; early days in Weed, El Paso and Alamagordo; dances; Hot Springs (now Truth or Consequences) and La Luz, New Mexico.

Interview No. 5, J. Frank Dobie

Combined Interviews

Discussion of his life, his attitudes toward his own writings and how they have changed, his audience, bookstores.

Ua3/3/1 Ode To A Half Century, A. L. Crabb

WKU Administration Documents

Reminisces of A.L. Crabb sent to Kelly Thompson. Includes memories of Finley Grise, E.H. Canon and Gordon Wilson.

Ua3/3/1 Herman Donovan Correspondence, Herman Donavan, Wku President's Office - Thompson

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from Herman Donovan to Kelly Thompson regarding Donovan's speech and presentation of cane to Captain Charles Vanmeter in 1908.

Interview No. 585, Baseball Parade

Combined Interviews

Voices of baseball greats Bob Grimm, Leo Kiley, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Ted Williams, Joe Cronin, Joe DiMaggio, Chuck Dressin, and a recitation of "Cassey at the Bat" by De Wolf Hopper.

Interview No. 581, Robert S. Kerr

Combined Interviews

"Is Our Foreign Policy in the Far East Working?" (On 7-inch reel only)

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 900-989, 999-1049:

• A Cheerful Liar – 252
• A Mother in Israel – 219
• A Neighborhood Sheik – 215
• A Thin Veneer – 244
• Amen – 109
• Appropriate Food – 99
• Asafetida Bags & Sulfa Drugs – 250
• Awards Day – 278
• Bad Connections – 276
• Ballad Situations – 113
• Becoming a Back Number – 27
• Bells, Bells, Bells – 83
• Blab Schools – 169
• Bottomless Pits – 201
• Burning Off the Woods – 151
• But Not Homer – 47
• By the Highway – 159
• By the Side of the Road – 25
• Calf Rope – …

Interview No. 586, Hear It Now

Combined Interviews

Ed R. Morrow broadcast including Carl Sandburg, Red Barker, Branch Rickey, Abe Burrows, Senator Higgenlooper, Dean Acheson, and Douglas McArthur.

Interview No. 594, Kefauver Hearings

Combined Interviews

Excerpts from the hearings on crime and communism.

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 750-799, 803-804, 807-831, 833-857, 859-899:

• A Changing World – 167
• A Cycle of Folk Culture – 215
• A Few Lines – 257
• Across the Creek – 241
• Adults & Children – 3
• All Mixed Up – 65
• And Thee Is a Little Queer – 69
• Anecdotal Wisdom – 15
• Another Barrier Removed – 83
• Beauty & Prejudice – 163
• Beauty & Religion – 139
• Being Typical – 23
• Better But Sadder – 51
• Blue Monday – 111
• Boogers – 177
• Brave Men, Living & Dead – 77
• Candy Kisses – 37
• Canopus – 149
• Changing …

Interview No. 584, Democratic National Convention

Combined Interviews

Broadcast of the convention

Interview No. 591, Parade Of Royalty

Combined Interviews

King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, and Princess Elizabeth.

Interview No. 583, Douglas Mcarthur

Combined Interviews

Excerpt from Keynote Speech, Republican National Convention, ca. 1950s.

(on 7-inch reel only.)

Interview No. 593, Politicians

Combined Interviews

Sen. Estis Kefauner, "Is Our Foreign Policy in Western Europe Working?"

Sen. Paul Douglas, Sen. Robert Taft, Gov. Earl Warren, Harold Stassen, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Sen. James Duff, President Truman, "Who Will be the next President of the United States?"

Great Flood, Margie Gullet, Inkpot Magazine

Flood of 1939

Article published in the November of 1949 issue of Inkpot Magazine by Margie Gullet on her experiences during the Flood of 1939.

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 676-749:

• A Changing Christmas – 79
• A Dry Moon – 42
• A Folk Triumph – 4
• A Folklore Map of Kentucky – 46
• A Glossary of Passing Words – 135
• A Healthful Sign – 10
• Advancing or Retreating? – 36
• Analogy, Good & Bad – 28
• Ancestry & Common Sense – 105
• Another Dopester Wrong – 66
• Are You Superstitious? – 44
• Back on the Old Party Line – 145
• Blind, Deaf & Dumb – 141
• Bossy & Dobbin – 91
• Bucket Jelly – 16
• By Any Other Name – 147
• By Eye or By …

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 566-669:

• A Few Generations – 57
• Agreeable Fans – 7
• All Tied Up with Memories – 95
• An Ivory Tower – 15
• As In the Days of Methuselah – 188
• Bowser & the Wildcat – 126
• By Their Fruits – 154
• Chicken Coops & Horse Troughs – 196
• Chicken Hawks & Tom Paine – 47
• Childish Fears – 27
• Chimneys – 140
• Communal Culture – 51
• Contiguous Areas – 138
• Country Hicks – 112
• Cradles – 108
• Culture in Hymns – 59
• Cycles of Teaching – 162
• Didn’t It Rain? – 164
• Digging in the …

Notable Local Floods Of 1939: Part 2. Flood Of July 5, 1939 In Eastern Kentucky, Floyd F. Schrader

Flood of 1939

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 590, Famous Personalities And Events

Combined Interviews

Wendell Wilkie, Jimmy Walker, Gertrude Stein, Dionne Quintuplets, Hindenburg Disaster eyewitness reports, and the first atomic explosion

12/21/1944, University Of Southern Maine Special Collections

Luther I. Bonney Papers

No abstract provided.