Interview with Don B. Pratt, February 15, 2021
Project: University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Don Pratt graduated from Bryan Station High School in Lexington, KY in 1962 and enrolled at the University of Kentucky in the fall of that year. In this interview he discusses President Donald Trump's 2021 impeachment trial, his experience after contracting Covid-19, and events on the U.K. campus in 1968.Interview Accession
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President Donald Trump 2021 impeachment trial Covid-19 illness University of Kentucky Vietnam War television coverage 1968 Tet Offensive Kentucky Kernel loss of public trust of U.S. government and military 1968 campus anti-war attitude President Lyndon B. Johnson Black Student Union (BSU) Theodore Berry William Turner Jim Embry Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X Adolph Rupp Carl Cone Dr. John Oswald campus civil rights movement Kentucky General Assembly Un-American Activities Committee Governor Louie B. Nunn 1968 War and the Draft Conference Draft Counseling Service Lawrence X. TarpeyInterview Rights
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Pratt, Don B. Interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. 15 Feb. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Pratt, D.B. (2021, February 15). 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.
Pratt, Don B., interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. February 15, 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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