Latter Day Saints -- Interviews
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Ivan A. Farnworth interview
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331230]
Identifier: MSS SC 3191
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Stan Burnett on 31 Jan. 1985 for the Ray Hillam war project. Farnworth was inducted into the military at Camp Fremont, California. He contracted influenza in 1918. He served as a guard in France, and went to Camp Lincoln after the war to guard Afro-Americans. Farnworth was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He had five cousins that also served in the war, and two of them died. He said that he and his brother received...
Dates:
1985 January 31
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David Gardner interview
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330273]
Identifier: MSS SC 3170
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Chinez Chukwurah on August 11, 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. Gardner served as an entertainer with the USO before he was drafted in the United States Army. He was trained on high-speed computers and was deployed in Vietnam in 1971 to the Saigon-Tansunut Air Force Base. He repaired computers handled top-secret information that went from Vietnam to important government leaders and agencies. He never saw combat and served in the...
Dates:
1985 August 11
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Robert Hughes interview
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330323]
Identifier: MSS SC 3173
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Darren Timothy on 6 Dec. 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. Hughes was from Spanish Fork, Utah, and his father worked for the FBI. Robert Hughes joined the Marine Corps officer's program in 1967 and was sent to serve with the infantry in Vietnam. He later served with motor transportation in Vietnam. He was in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 and went on many search-and-destroy missions. Hughes told about hardships in being away from home. ...
Dates:
1985 December 6
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Interview with James C. Sproul
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337534]
Identifier: MSS 2784
Scope and Contents
Typescript of an interview taken from the included sound tape. No name is found on the item or in the interview, but internal evidence suggests it was an interview with James C. Sproul by an unidentified interviewer. Sproul was probably interviewed as part of research for the book "A Time to Kill: Reflections on War" by Ray Hillam and others. Sproul talks about his experience as a Chinese linguist and his activities when he was deployed to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.
Dates:
1990
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Walter H. Speidel interview
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330315]
Identifier: MSS SC 3174
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted on 28 March 1985 by Burt Speidel, Walter's son, for the Ray Hillam military history project. Walter was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and was raised in Germany. He told about the Mormon missionaries that had to leave the country in 1938, and he was afraid that Germany and the United States would have to fight each other. He was in the Hitler Youth that had meetings on Sunday which made it difficult for him to go to Church....
Dates:
1985 March 28
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview with Wayne A. Warr
Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 3192
Scope and Contents
A typescript and two audiocassette recordings of an interview with Wayne A. Warr conducted by Scott M. Fellows on February 14, 1985, for the Ray Hillam war project. Warr served in the United States Army and was sent to Vietnam in 1965 as a radio operator. He was in Vietnam for three months in 1965 and returned in 1967 as a platoon sergeant. He tells about his daily routines, experiences when ambushed, and difficulty distinguishing the enemy. States the North Vietnamese were well trained,...
Dates:
1985 February 14
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Clyde Everett Weeks interview and poems
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331289]
Identifier: MSS SC 3193
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Richard Weeks on 3 Feb. 1985 for the Ray Hillam war project. Clyde Weeks graduated in 1942 from high school at age 16. He turned 17 later that year, and he joined the Marine Corps in 1943. He went to Hawaii in 1943 for combat training, and he participated in the invasion of the Marshall Islands. He helped establish communications. He was also involved in the invasion of Guam with the 4th Marines. On Guam, he was wounded in the leg by a hand...
Dates:
1944-1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert Winkler interviews with James L. Gardner
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2783
Scope and Contents
Typescripts of interviews conducted by Albert Winkler of Special Collections of Brigham Young University on 15 and 23 March, 7 April, and 21 July 2000. Gardner often went by the name "Face" which is the name that appears on the transcripts of the interviews. He tells about his experiences in Vietnam and Laos during the Vietnam War and his excursion into China. Gardner talks about the foolishness and brutality of war and also tells about how the experience impacted on him. Also included...
Dates:
2000
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections