Interview with Jack A. Wilson, October 24, 2004
Project: Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Jack Wilson (Liberia, 1962-1964; Education Program) discusses his life and educational background both before and after joining the Peace Corps, including growing up in southern Michigan and graduating from the College of Wooster with a speech degree in 1961. Wilson describes his time in the Peace Corps spent teaching English in Monrovia, Liberia and coaching basketball. He tells about how he became Associate Peace Corps Director in Sierra Leone, then desk officer for The Gambia and Nigeria, and then Director in Fiji.Interview Accession
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Education Republic of The Gambia Peace Corps Peace Corps volunteers Teaching abroad Nigeria FijiInterview Rights
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Wilson, Jack A. Interview by Angene H. Wilson. 24 Oct. 2004. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Wilson, J.A. (2004, October 24). Interview by A. H. Wilson. Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Wilson, Jack A., interview by Angene H. Wilson. October 24, 2004, Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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