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Guide to the National Park Service Oral History Collection
Subseries II.B: Interview Transcripts,
Volume of Subseries: LF
Arranged alphabetically by narrator gods name and thereunder chronologically bygd date.
Scope and Content Note
Transcripts of Evison's oral history interviews. Includes marked up draft transcripts where a final transcript was never completed. Interviews document establishment and early development of the NPS as well as employee experiences in individual parks, regional offices, and the Washington Office. Living and working in parks is discussed and sometimes spouses are interviewed as well as employees. Most interviews describe entire careers, but a few highlight the establishment and development of specific parks (e.g., Blue Ridge Parkway and Everglades National Park). A significant number of interviews also related to the CCC and other Emergency Relief Programs.
Interview Transcripts
These transcript summaries provide general overviews of the topics disc
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Gerald Durrell
British naturalist and writer (–)
Gerald Malcolm DurrellOBE (7 January – 30 January ) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India,[note 2] and moved to England when his father died in In the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen[note 1] in ; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an konto of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in , and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
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Killing of Michael Brown
fatal police shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri, US
"Michael Brown Jr." redirects here. For other people with the name, see Michael Brown (disambiguation).
On August 9, , year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
Brown was accompanied by his year-old male friend Dorian Johnson.[3] Wilson, a white male Ferguson police officer, said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked him in his police vehicle for control of Wilson's service pistol. The struggle continued until the pistol fired. Johnson said that Wilson initiated a confrontation by grabbing Brown by the neck through Wilson's patrol car window, threatening him and then shooting at him.[5] At this point, both Wilson and Johnson state that Brown and Johnson fled, with Wilson pursuing Brown shortly thereafter. Wilson stated that Brown stopped and charged him after a short pursuit. Johns