Oral history interview with Roy Randorf / interviewed by Howard Fredricks (3 of 7)
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- 1971
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Randorf discusses his family background and life growing up in Wisconsin. He details his enlistment in the United States Army in 1966, describing basic training in Missouri and Fort Benning, Georgia. He discusses going AWOL from Fort Benning twice and being sent to prison in Wisconsin and Kentucky. He also focuses on his service in the Vietnam War and his perceptions of life in Vietnam, including the presence of prostitution. Also discussed are the following topics: Court trial, AWOL—Stockades, prison—Resistance—Censorship, books—Racial tensions—Protesting—Improvements, prison—Monthly stipend, cigarettes—Homosexuality—Drugs, marijuana—Entertainment, stockades—Military court—Psychiatrists—AWOL, second time—Combat ready unit.
00:00:00—Court trial, AWOL | 00:01:20—Stockades, prison | 00:10:25—Resistance | 00:13:20—Censorship, books | 00:14:40—Racial tensions | 00:18:40—Protesting | 00:24:50—Improvements, prison | 00:28:00—Monthly stipend, cigarettes | 00:30:15—Homosexuality | 00:32:40—Drugs, marijuana | 00:41:20—Entertainment, stockades | 00:48:20—Military court | 00:51:40—Psychiatrists | 00:54:00—AWOL, second time | 01:01:40—Combat ready unit
Tape 3 of 7.
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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- Randorf, Roy -- Interviews
Oral history
Oral history -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Interviews -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- History
Vietnam -- Social life and customs - Type
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- English
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- Oral history interview with Roy Randorf / interviewed by Howard Fredricks (3 of 7). 1971. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebAudioPlayer.jsp?doc_id=aa172543-df64-469f-9585-15a8bb4e56e4/wlacu000/00000018/00000090. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- (1971) Oral history interview with Roy Randorf / interviewed by Howard Fredricks (3 of 7). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebAudioPlayer.jsp?doc_id=aa172543-df64-469f-9585-15a8bb4e56e4/wlacu000/00000018/00000090
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebAudioPlayer.jsp?doc_id=aa172543-df64-469f-9585-15a8bb4e56e4/wlacu000/00000018/00000090>.