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Oral History Questions 1. carlos 

QUESTION 1What was the segragation like in school, neighborhoods, stores ect.? I went to an elementary school that had no minority students so I could not tell anything about segregation. The community I lived in also had no minorities. 

However, my high school was very integrated as was teh community we moved to. There was no segregation that I could tell in high school, it was very mixed. However, the black minority of the community clearly did not live in as nice an area as most of the whites did.

The national newspapers and TV did make it clear that segregation was a problem in many parts of the country, even if I did not see it occur directly.



QUESTION 2When MLK Jr. gave his dream speech what was your reaction?Even as a kid, it was easy to see the power of his words and the meaning they represented. Dr King was a great speaker and this was certainly a terrific example.

QUESTION 3 What was your reaction to the assination of MLK Jr.?It was very scarry. It seemd in a short period of time John F. Kennedy was assinated and then Dr. King in April 1968. It seemd that the fabric of society was coming unraveled. As the assasination of Dr. King was the during the time of the Cold War, the Vietname War, a period of racial riots in the summers there was an almost super heated environment everywhere.

  QUESTION 4 Were you ever drafted into the Vietnam war? If so what was your number?NO

  QUESTION 5 Were you for or against the Vietnam war? Why? If against did you ever protest? What were your memories of that time?Against the war.

It seemed America was gettng involved in a civil war taht we had no interest in and that the "Domino Theory" was a madeup excuse to contiunue our involvement.

  QUESTION 6 What was your reaction to the assination of JFK? Where were you? When did you find out? It was very scary to have the President killed in the middle of the day. At this time the Cold War was pretty hot, and it left me wondering if an active war might be started as there was concern that the Russians might be involved. In school. It was announced in school 

QUESTION 7 Did you vote for Nixon? Why or Why Not?NO

He was ruining the country with our involvement with the Vietnam War. However, he did manage to stop the war and opened a long term conversation with China.



QUESTION 8 When did you find out about the Watergate cover-up? How much did you know? What was your reaction? <span style="font-family: Myriad; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block; line-height: normal;">I can't say a specific date. Watergate came out as a series of revelations. First there was there was the break-in at the Watergate. The second one ( <span style="font-family: Myriad; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; display: block; line-height: normal;"> June 17   <span style="font-family: Myriad; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block; line-height: normal;">, 1972) was certainly in the newspapers. From there the news kept coming over many months until Nixon resigned in 1974. The newspapers eventually covered the story what seemed to be on a daily basis. What they did not know they intimated. On one side Nixon had a rotten reputation with those against the war and so the break-ins seemed to be part of a trend of his deceiving America. My reaction was probably more amazement that any political party in the US could stoop to such low handed attempts to win an election.

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QUESTION 9 When did you find out about the Saturday Night Massacar? What was your reaction? <span style="font-family: Myriad; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block; line-height: normal;">It was on the evening news ( <span style="text-align: left; display: inline !important;">October 20, 19<span style="text-align: left; display: inline !important;">73) and the following newspapers were all over the story, It certainly made me think that Nixon was trying to cover up his crimes.

It also made me proud that Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, who both resigned on matters of principal) were men of such high honor that they could not participate in stopping Archibald Cox's investigation. <span style="font-family: Myriad; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; display: block; line-height: normal;">

QUESTION 10 Were you for or against the impeachment of Nixon? Why or Why not? <span style="font-family: Myriad; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block; line-height: normal;">I was for the impeachment of Nixon. He did so much to tear the country apart for no good reason. The total experience of his presidency seemed to be morally corrupt by following and expanding Lyndon Johnson's expansion of the Vietnam War, selecting Vice President Agnew who was corrupt for taking bribes years before, and the Watergate beak-ins. But the impeachment was suppose to be about the Watergate break-ins and there seemed to be enough there to impeach him on that alone. <span style="font-family: Myriad; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; display: block; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 200%; color: rgb(132, 135, 231); text-align: center; display: block;"> Oral History Questions 2. caryl deane

<span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question 1 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Did you know any one who was drafted into the war? If so who? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was a flight attendant for Northwest Airlines and we flew troups to Japan. From there they were taken to Vietnam. I met many soldiers on each flight that were drafted. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question 2 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When was your first flight to Vietnam <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I did not fly to Vietnam, but to Japan. My ex husband was a navigator for the Air Force and he flew many trips to Vietnam. They were shot at while trying to land the plane. He was always tramatized by these flights. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question 3 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Did you support the war? Why or why not? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">During the war I was supportive, because I was young and naive and spent alot of time with people that had either been to Vietnam or were going. When I look back at how young the men were that were taken there and <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">at the terrible conditions they fought in, thick jungles, unfamiliar with this terrain. It was a losing battle the moment they set foot into that country and a political mistake. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Question 4 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Did you pick up any troops from Vietnam? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">When I was a flight attendent for Northwest Airlines we picked up the troops in Japan. They were flown in from Vietnam. They were all so happy to be going home. When we arrived in the United States I remember them running off the plane and kissing the ground .<span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Question 5 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Did you hear any stories from soldiers about why they joined the war? What the war was like? If yes, did the the stories change your view on the war? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">While I was a flight attendent I felt I had a responsibility to talk with the troops. Many of the soldiers were very scared and naive, leaving a young family behind. Alot of them had joined the military because it was a place for them to be and they could get a college education. Others were drafted because if you don't go to college you are drafted. I don't think many really knew what they were going to war for. It wasn't made clear what the war was really about. And they knew they would be fighting in jungles which were very unfamiliar to them. It was a death trap because the Viet Cong knew the jungles well. Most of the soldiers were very quiet about what happened to them. I knew, though, that they had been through unbelieveably dangerous <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">circumstances. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-family: Myriad;">Question 6 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What was your reaction to the assination of JFK? Where were you? When did you find out? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was in based in Washington D.C. with Northwest Airlines at the time. It was a very difficult time for the country. Personally, I wasn't very involved with politics. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question 7 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Did you vote for Nixon? Why or Why Not? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was too young to vote. I met Mr. and Mrs. Nixon in Seattle when my district voted me Miss Republican. I am <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">no longer a republican. Too many things have happened to change my political views. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question 8 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When did you find out about the Watergate cover-up? How much did you know? What was your reaction? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I had lived in the Watergate complex when I lived in Washington D.C. That was really all knew. I really wasn't very involved in politics at that time. <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question 9 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When did you find out about the Saturday Night Massacar? What was your reaction? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I didn't know what this is <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question 10 <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Were you for or against the impeachment of Nixon? Why or Why not? <span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was for the impeachment of Nixon. I feel that a President should be honest and not get involved in things that could hurt the country. The country comes first, its people and then the President. I thought that Ford pardoned him to make it easier for his family. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; font-size: 200%; color: rgb(132, 135, 231); text-align: center; display: block;">