When were you born?
May 23rd 1955.
Was the school you went to in 1962 segregated?
Yes, I went to an all white school.
What is your opinion on segregation?
I believe that it was beneficial to keep the whites separate from the blacks. It helped each group to learn at the pace best suited for their race.
Why is it beneficial to have segregated public facilities such as restaurants and drinking fountains?
It was necessary to keep us separate from them because they needed to be reminded of their social standing.
What did you think of the Watergate Scandal?
Well, at the time, I was in high school and I didn't involve myself in politics very much. Nixon wasn't very popular with my crowd, but the Watergate scandal did grab my attention. It made my family and I scared; we didn't know if we could trust the government anymore.
What did you think of the increasing price of gas?
I was very angry with that. I was just about to go to college when they started to go up and I desperately in need of my car to get there. I was living California and I was accepted to Ohio State University.
What were your thoughts of the War in Vietnam?
It was going on from my birth untill I was in college, and I didn't really understand what the war was about. I thought that the loss of the lives of all our soldiers were for a good cause, I really did want to believe they were. But, there was nothing saying that their deaths were going towards any cause whatsoever. The war, looking back, just seemed meaningless.
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