Washington County Oral Histories

Jack Kirkwood oral history recording

An audio recording of an oral history of Jack Kirkwood on the Vietnam War. Jack Kirkwood was a teacher at Poynter Junior High and at Hillsboro Middle High during the war. His began his teaching career in Ganado, Arizona, at a boarding school on the Navajo Indian Reservation. At the end of the Korean war, Mr. Kirkwood enlisted and participated in basic training at Camp San Luis Obispo in California. Afterwards, he was assigned to signal corps message center in the United Nations Far East Headquarters. This position consisted of monitoring propaganda broadcasts from China after the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1948-49. The interviewee was a noteworthy activist against the war, he wrote various anti-war pieces. One was a letter to the Oregonian and as a result he was called by the Portland Council of Churches to join the Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam. Kirkwood also wrote a pamphlet in 1967 entitled

Kirkwood, Jack

Century High School collection

Washington County (Or.) -- History

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American

Washington County (Or.)

Hillsboro (Or.)

1 sound cassette (39 min.)

English

WCM_OH_465

In Copyright

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Five Oaks Museum

Johnson, Kevin

Audiocassettes

Sound