South Kingstown High School (South Kingstown, R.I. : Town)

The Whole World was Watching oral history project, a joint effort between South Kingstown High School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group, was conducted during 1998 by twenty students from a tenth grade English class at the high school under the supervision of school librarian Linda Wood and English teacher Sharon Schmid. The students interviewed thirty-one Rhode Island residents about their experiences, recollections and personal reminiscences of significant events of the year 1968, e.g. the Vietnam War, the Democratic National Convention, the civil rights struggle and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Interviewees included Lincoln Almond, J. Joseph Garrahy, Agnes Doody, and E. Gordon Gee. The project resulted in the publication of, 1968: The Whole World was Watching (Providence, R.I. : s.n., 1998), a compilation of edited versions of the students' essays based on the interviews and a Web Site (URL: http:www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/) which includes photos of the interviewees, edited versions of the students' essays, transcripts of the interviews, and real-time audio recordings of the interviews.