Interview with Reid Johnson, June 20, 1994
Project: American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project
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Johnson Family history; growing up in Chicago 1920s-30s; attending Kentucky State University; experiences as a football player for Kentucky State; Rufus B. Atwood-- enlisting in the Army Reserve; being called into active duty at Battle Creek-- Michigan and his reaction; general mood of the country during the war.Interview Accession
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Johnson, Reid Interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. 20 Jun. 1994. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Johnson, R. (1994, June 20). Interview by J. Suchanek. American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Johnson, Reid, interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. June 20, 1994, American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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