Interview with Thomas G. McDowell, January 27, 2021
Project: University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Tom McDowell graduated from Elizabethtown High School in 1966 and enrolled at the University of Kentucky in the fall of that year. In this interview he discusses the Covid-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden's Administration, and his experiences on the U.K. campus in 1968.Interview Accession
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Covid-19 pandemic President Joseph Biden University of Kentucky 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson Black Student Union Kentucky Kernel William Turner Dr. John Oswald Adolph Rupp Dr. Carl Cone campus racial tension Free Speech issue Kentucky state legislature Governor Louie B. Nunn "The War and the Draft" conference Draft Counseling Service Lawrence X. Tarpey Don Pratt Robert Sedler Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) 1968 student campus protests Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee communists on campus County Attorney Armand Angelucci Assistant County Attorney E. Lawson King 1968 campus political atmosphere Jack Hall 1968 national race riotsInterview Rights
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McDowell, Thomas G. Interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. 27 Jan. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
McDowell, T.G. (2021, January 27). Interview by J. Suchanek. University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
McDowell, Thomas G., interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. January 27, 2021, University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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