USC Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection 180

ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION

In the 1960s the USC Library began a limited oral history program which Robert Knutson, head of Special Collections organized and carried out.

1. Folder containing two floppy disks with transcripts of various interviews

2. Transcript (37 pages) of radio program, “Four Who Came Back” October 12, 1960.
William Tusher interviewing Beth James, Charles Dirks, Jeannette Babican, and Mary McCauley, all of whom had just gotten back from “extended outposts of the world”.

3. Transcript (26 pages) of interview: Bernard Brennan, January 5, 1961.
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

4. Transcript (31 pages), cassette (60 minutes) of interview: John Ciardi, 1963. 
Interviewed by Robert Kaplan. Sheet of Mr. Kaplan’s prepared questions.

5. One 1/4” 900 ft. reel tape, one 60 minute cassette tape of interview of Samuel L. Cramer, September 10, 1970.

6. Transcript (24 pages) of interview: Harold Crary, October 6, 1967. 
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

7. Transcript (33 pages), 4 cassette tapes (60 minutes each) of 2 interviews with Mr. Frank Courtney. (February 15, 1968 and November 29, 1967). 
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

8. Transcript (37 pages), two 60 minute cassette tapes of interview with Dr. Carl Dolmetsch, August 22, 1962.
Interviewed by Pauline Alderman.

9. Transcript (65 pages), two 90 min cassette tapes, one reel tape for the interview: Everett Drinkwater, October 27, 1967, on aviation history.
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

10.Transcript (149 pages), three reel tapes for the interview: Will and Ariel Durant, no date. 

11. Transcript (55 pages) of interview: Donald Frey, December 28, 1960. 
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

12. Transcript (22 pages), two 90 min cassette tapes of the interview: Charles Hannah, January 20, 1966. 

13. Transcript (100 pages) of interview: Karl Holton, December 15, 1960. 
Interviewed by Robert Knutson. Correspondence; Willa Baum of UC Berkeley and Dr. Knutson. 

14. Transcript (69 pages), two 60 minute cassette tapes of the interview: Aldous Huxley, August 7, 1962. 
Interviewed by Robert Kaplan. 

15. Transcript (40 pages) of the interview: William Inge. 
Interviewed by Robert Kaplan and James Durbin.

16.Transcript (20 pages) of the interview: Christopher Isherwood, March 5, 1962. 
Interviewed by Robert Kaplan and James Durbin.

17. Transcript (60 pages) of the interview: Kyle Palmer, January to March, 1962. 
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

18. Transcript (43 pages), one 90 min cassette of the interview: Ira J. Proffitt, November 15, 1967. Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

19. Transcript (41 pages), one 90 min cassette of the interview: Upton Sinclair, July 8, 1961. Interviewed by Joe Hanson.

20. Transcript (22 pages) of the interview: Upton Sinclair, March 23, 1962. 
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

21. Transcript (52 pages), two 90 min cassettes of the interview: Dr. John Alexander Somerville, June 7, 1968.
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

22. Transcript (25 pages), two 90 min cassettes of the interview: Chancellor Rufus B. Von KleinSmid, March 1, 1961. 
Interviewed by Robert Knutson.

23. Transcript (29 pages) of the interview: Paul Ziffren, December 15, 1960.
Interviewed by Robert Knutson. Correspondence; Willa Baum of UC Berkeley.