Southeastern Kentucky Vietnam Combat Veteran's Oral History Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: BCA 0152 SAA 156

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Audio recorded interviews with 22 southeastern Kentucky combat veterans who served during the Vietnam War. The interviews focus on the personal, social, and emotional aspects of wartime service instead of accounts of battles, logistics, and military operations.

Listen to Interview Recordings, read transcripts, glossary of terms, or project preface

Subjects include personal military experience (being drafted or enlisting), education (military training, life lessons), food, communication, humor, friendships, travel, relationships, medical treatment, veterans' activities, and effects of military service on later life.

Dates

created: 2011-2012

Creator

Clark, Jerry L. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Follow the links in the recordings list to hear interviews and read transcripts. Interviews can be directly accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions on use of this material other than federal copyright regulations.

Extent

3.00 boxes_(general)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The interviews were recorded between May and September 2011 by Jerry L. Clark. Clark is a Vietnam combat veteran who grew up in Whitley County, Kentucky. After military service he completed his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees and worked as a clinical social worker for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Arrangement Note

Box 1: Original recording (cassette tape format)

Box 2: Listening/Reference copies of original recordings (CD format)

Box 3: Transcripts of recordings and other printed matter

Other Descriptive Information

BCA 0152 SAA 156

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Harry Rice, Sound Archivist. The finding aid was created in August 2015 by Lori Myers-Steele, Collections Archivist, and Harry Rice. Links to digital recordings added 2018.