Interview with Joseph Willis Ward, May 20, 2003

Project: Oldham County Historical Society: Oldham County Veterans Oral History Project

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Joseph Willis Ward, born in Conrad, Montana on August 23, 1942, served in the United States Air Force during peacetime. Ward?s service started on June 6, 1960 and ended March 1964. Ward completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and studied the Russian language at Indiana University. Ward was deployed overseas to Tokyo, Japan where he worked as a Voice Intercept Processor. After leaving the military, Ward pursued a career in Journalism and got a job at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky.

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2012oh145_ochs047

Interviewee Name

Joseph Willis Ward

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Patrice Blanchard

Interview Date

2003-05-20

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Ward, Joseph Willis Interview by Patrice Blanchard. 20 May. 2003. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Ward, J.W. (2003, May 20). Interview by P. Blanchard. Oldham County Historical Society: Oldham County Veterans Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Ward, Joseph Willis, interview by Patrice Blanchard. May 20, 2003, Oldham County Historical Society: Oldham County Veterans Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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