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Interview No. 595, News Items

Combined Interviews

Excerpts from news broadcasts, February 1964

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Diaries written by former English professor Gordon Wilson to WKU president Kelly Thompson reminiscing over old times at Western Kentucky University.

• 4:30 PM, 3/22/1964
• A Common Cultural Background, 3/12/1964
• A Widening Influence, 3/4/1964
• Again & Again, 3/19/1964
• An Unending Process, 3/12/1964
• Curriculum, Curricula, 3/1/1964
• If?, 3/9/1964
• Learning in the One-Roomed Country School, 3/2/1964
• Loses & Gains, 3/11/1964
• Our Big, Big Group, 3/18/1964
• Our Small World, 3/2/1964
• Preparation of Our Faculty, 3/24/1964
• Programs, 3/19/1964
• Recognition of Research, 3/6/1964
• Second Wind, 3/1/1964
• Simplicity & Sophistication, 3/28/1964
• So Young & Yet So Old, 3/3/1964
• Some Evidences of Culture, 3/4/1964
• Some Lost History, 3/28/1964 …

Ua37/44 Western Big Events In Late 1963, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding events of late 1963.

Interview No. 571, Kennedy Assassination

Combined Interviews

News coverage of the assassination. [on 7-inch reels only.]

Ua37/44 My Speech To The English Majors & Teachers, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding a speech he delivered to the WKU English Department.

Ua37/44 Memories Of The Old Chestnut Hunt, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding chestnut hunts, boat excursions and other student entertainment in the Southern Normal School.

Ua37/44 Further Ranges, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding the Southern Normal School.

Ua37/44 Our Golden Wedding, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding Wilson's 50th wedding anniversary and the Southern Normal School.

Ua37/44 Our Early Crowded Conditions At The Normal, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding the Southern Normal School.

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. 594, Kefauver Hearings

Combined Interviews

Excerpts from the hearings on crime and communism.

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.

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. 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?"