A Davis- Keefe, Canadian- American Experience

Parallel Lives: Jack & Wanda, Wanda and Jack Keefe

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1Introduction
1.1 Why
1.2 How
1.3 Who

2 Sources
2.1 Previous
2.2 Class
2.3 Examples 2.4 WWW

3 Interviews
3.1 Tran- scripts
3.2 Audio Tape
3.3 Digital Video
3.4 Selected Excerpts
3.5 Comentary

4 Photos
4.1 J& W
4.2 Family
4.3 Friends
4.4 Places
4.5 Maps


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 Part C.01 - Lists of Interview - Transcripts

used as sources for Oral Hist Project:

Jack and Wanda; Wanda and Jack: Parallel Lives

The interview tapes and transcripts serve as the primary source material of this project. In Section B, key stories have been summarized and in some cases excerpted to illustrate a point. References are provided to the complete transcript, which are available in this Section.

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Lists of Interviews - Transcripts, Audio and Video files

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C..01    Lists of Interviews - Transcripts SEE Details Below  

C.01.a

Jk00mr04.doc

Draft Transcript, Jk stories # 045 to-050

Pawn Shop; Girls in Locker Room;  Life Guards; Hand Ball – Age; Street fights; Shot my Grandmother;  Listening to Mass from St. Patrick's,

 

C.01.b

Jk00mr18.doc

UN Edited 18 Mar 2000 interview with Jack Keefe: Adlai Stevenson Campaign 1952; Nelson Rockefeller campaign 1964; Jacob Javits re-election Campaign 1968

Eisenhower, Kennedy 1960, Mrs. Roosevelt's support , "Stamped the Convention", Harry Truman - contentious nomination for VP,  Stevenson US Representative at the UN,  Campaign organization, Dewey & Truman TV  for 1948, Switching parties, Johnson, Humphrey, McGovern, invited to join team,  Oregon News Media Prediction, Small Planes and Campaign Literature, Meet with Bishops and Cancellations, Disney Land, Campaigning on Buses & Trains, Loyola College President 's decision to cancel, Threats from Goldwater's & Loyola's financial backers, Nelson Rockefeller hug,  California Primary, race between liberals, Paul O'Dwyer 1968, Holtsman and D'Amato, National Rifle Association & Javits Moxie

 

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Jk00ap15.doc

Questions for Jack Keefe: follow up interview 15 April 2000, Provided to Jack Keefe a Half hour before the follow up interview

Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, leadership, World War Two, Vietnam War; Sons served in Armed forces, student "activist";  Sports Illustrative Article 1987;  Stories humorous side; reservations about tapes or transcripts use

 

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Jk00ap16

Jack Keefe follow up interview: 15 April 2000; Answers to Questions

Civil War Draft Riots in NY, Abraham Lincoln;  World War Two, Hitler; Vietnam War; Sons Serve and/or Oppose War ;  Sports Illustrated Article 1987 ;  Not Talking Politics;  Why Humorous Stories?;  Shore leave British & American ;  Troop Transport to Alaska - Nature's Elements ;  Church, British Guyana ;  US Army Talk on Patriotism & Seagulls ;  Events make History?  Depression, War Preparation & Unemployment; 1920's Radio Programs;  TV & Harry Truman; JK book Oral History Interview Process & Release; 

 

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Jw00ag14.rtf

Jack & Wanda Oral History Interview:  Aug. 14th 2000,& begin Sept 04, 2000

Marriage 1944, Not Back To Alaska ;  Barracks Life for 3 Years: Trinidad, and British Guyana, Brazil, Yukon ; First Grandchild for Keefes,  Neighbors: Commuting – work life; Standard Car Shift and Jacks adjustment for  Leg;. Grandfather Cabinet Maker & Great Aunt Athabaska Trail Driver; first Granddaughter; Wanda's One Room Schoolhouse  work: threshing crew, Hospital to Pay Family bill .  Trans-Canadian Highway and at Look Magazine

 

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Wk00se02.doc

Wanda D. Keefe Interview suggested topics for Parallel Lives: Time line: Organizations, Clubs, Schools; Work Life; Married Family Life Community Life, Relation to Husband's Career, Relation to Personal Goals, Philosophy,;

 Early Family Life; -Parents;  Siblings;  Student Life; Classmates; Special classes,; Husband;  Children [Births, significant events];-Moves; Neighbors; Politics; Religion; Business;  Network;

 

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Jw00se04.doc

Oral History Interview: Continued Sept 04, 2000 Parallel Lives : Jack and Wanda, Wanda and Jack;  ; [Subtitled: A Davis-Keefe, Canadian-American Experience

One room schoolhouse to city /school,. High School & Basketball, Selling family furniture to survive; People moving around, taking odd jobs, Jack in Whitehorse; Accommodations men & women;  Plan children?; Jack’s chilly fall;. Soldiers in Yukon: American, Canadian, Russian . Working  cold Yukon;  foreigners entering USA;  1944  war result not certain;  Friends lost in World War 2, Canadian Forces in Battles; Atrocities on both sides; farm tools 2 Centuries

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Jw00se30.rft

Oral History Interview: Sept 30, 2000; Parallel Lives : Jack and Wanda, Wanda and Jack;  [Subtitled: A Davis-Keefe, Canadian-American Experience]

Frank and Tom Keefe Get well; weatherman & 3 day Novena;  Frank potential court-marshal; JJK Diaries – 1941 - 20??; local guys going to war ;  chased by Subs and Rumors in Trinidad;;  Troop ship reaction to beans, coffee & lecture on patriotism; narrow gage railroad;  Dressmaking & Business ;  Sewing Club, Circle; Small Businesses  for women & war changed things; GI Bill, Consumer Goods, College and Mortgage Loans; Possible Subjects for future interviews

 

C.02    Other uses of  similar stories by [or from] members of  3 Generations to be added  

C.03

 

List of Interview - Audio Tapes and digital files

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 TEST of Streaming Video  WMV format - test here first JW00au04audio

List of  Interview - Video tapes and Digital Video Files

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Lists of Stories from Interviewees Life

to be considered

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Technical -Media,  Format related note: The process used

Use of video, Audio tape recording, transcribing, CD mastering etc.

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