The Whole World Was Watching, An Oral History of 1968 (Mss. Gr. 143)

Series 1. Original Tapes, 1998
2 box(es)
(1 linear feet)

This series contains audio cassette tapes of twenty-two of the thirty-one people interviewed for the project. Audio cassettes of the interviews are not available for the following nine people: Agnes Doody, Maj Dutilly, Edmund Fetter, E. Gordon Gee, Cleveland Kurtz, Hoang Nguyen, John O'Malley, Rick Wilson, and Ed Wood. These interviews can be heard in real-time audio on the project web site. There is also a videotape of one subject, William Babcock.

Subjects discussed in the interviews include the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights struggle, the Democratic Party's 1968 national convention, politics of the era in general, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the impact of those events and issues on their lives.

Arrangement: The tapes are arranged alphabetically by the names of the interviewees.

Series 2. Original Transcripts/Releases/Information Forms , 1998
1.5 box(es)
(.75 linear feet)

This series contains the printed transcripts of the interviews, as well as information forms and release forms signed by the interviewees. Release forms are lacking for E. Gordon Gee and Nguyen Hoang. Transcripts are also available on the project web site.

Arrangement: The transcripts and related materials are arranged alphabetically by the name of the interviewee.

Series 3. Student Essays , 1998
1.5 box(es)
(.75 linear feet)

This series contains essays written by twenty South Kingstown High School tenth grade students about the people they interviewed for the project. The students received training in oral history interviewing techniques, viewed period films, listened to guest lecturers, and read about the era in which they were to become immersed.

Based on the interviews they conducted and their background research, the students wrote essays about the people they interviewed. The essays are a combination summary of the interview and a biographical sketch of the interviewee. The series contains both the students' unedited drafts of the essays and the final edited versions which appear on the project web site. Photographs of the interviewees taken to accompany the online versions are also included in this series. The essays also appear in a publication entitled 1968:The Whole World Was Watching. A copy of that publication has been placed at the end of the series.

Arrangement: The essays and photographs are arranged alphabetically by the name of the interviewee.

Series 4. Duplicate Copies of Transcripts/Releases/Information Forms, 1998
1.5 box(es)
(.75 linear feet)

This series contains duplicate copies of the printed transcripts, releases, and information forms contained in Series II.

Arrangement: The transcripts and related materials are arranged alphabetically by the name of the interviewee.