66. Jim West: Interview (28:24)

Date:
2006-04-26
Main contributors:
West, Jim
Summary:
Jim West, U.S. Marines, Vietnam (Interviewed April 26, 2006) Look up Marine in the dictionary and you might just see a picture of Jim West. Well you certainly should. This former Madisonville Police Chiefs spent nearly 3 years as a ground fighter in Vietnam. Jim West was not a spit-and-polish kind of Marine at all. He was a fighter who didn't mind bending a rule or two if it meant protecting his fellow Marines. If it weren't for those wounds he suffered 30 years ago he said that even at the age of 66 he'd volunteered to fight in Iraq. Sadly within a month of our interview Jim West died after suffering a rattlesnake bite on his own ranch.

67. Jim Woodall: Interview (27:44)

Date:
2008-01-17
Main contributors:
Woodall, Jim
Summary:
James Woodall, Navy/Army, Korea/Vietnam (A&M Class of 1950) (Interviewed January 17, 2008) James Woodall tried to enlist at the age of 15, even as a youth raising money to help the British fight off the Germans. He did enlist in the Navy Reserves in 1947 and retired in 1982, a 35 year military career that took him to Germany, Korea, Vietnam, and the Army War College in Pennsylvania. He was Commandant of the A&M Corp of Cadets until his retirement.

68. Jorge Accame: Interview (35:13)

Date:
2000
Main contributors:
Accame, Jorge, 1956-
Summary:
Jorge Accame and Esteban Peicovich discuss Accame's book, Concierto de jazz, which was recently published at the time of this interview. This book is closely related to a previous book, Cuatro poetas. They take turns reading excerpts from these books.

69. Jorge Boccanera: Interview [1992] (1:01:29)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Boccanera, Jorge A.
Summary:
During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Jorge Boccanera talks about his poems, his birthplace (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), his beginnings as a writer, Luis Cardoza y Aragon (a Guatemalan writer that influenced his works), radio programs with Litto Nebia and Humberto Constantini, his poems as lyrics for famous Argentine singers and his life in Costa Rica. The last part of the interview is a discussion of Boccanera's book in progress about Juan Gelman and Gelman's literary works, his personality and other aspects of Gelman's life. Also during the interview poems are read by both Peicovich and Boccanera.