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Roggenkamp, Sharon,. Henry Ward colleagues oral history project, 2004.

Title: Henry Ward colleagues oral history project, 2004.

This collection consists of interviews with many of Henry Ward's colleagues in the Kentucky Department of Highways, Kentucky state parks, journalism, and politics. Henry Ward is the primary topic of discussion, but other subjects are also covered, including Kentucky state politics of the 1950s and 1960s, the creation of the interstate highway system in Kentucky, and the revitalization of the Kentucky state parks under Ward. Interviewees also discuss other major Kentucky figures, including Edward Breathitt, Bert T. Combs, Happy Chandler, Ruby Laffoon, and Wilson Wyatt.

ArchivalResource: 19 sound cassettes (13 hr.) : analog, stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63192367 View

Pearce, John Ed,. Henry Ward interviews, 1985.

Title: Henry Ward interviews, 1985.

This extensive life history with Henry Ward covers his childhood experiences; his life during the Great Depression and his (concurrent) early years in the newspaper business and in the state legislature; his extensive experience in state parks and the creation of the interestate system in Kentucky. He also discusses his experiences in politics, with particular emphasis on the gubenatorial election of 1967, which Ward lost to Republican Louie Nunn. Ward also discusses many of his colleagues - many of whom were luminaries in Kentucky politics - including Alben Barkley, Happy Chandler, Earle Clements, Edward Prichard, Jr., Edward Breathitt, and Bert Combs.

ArchivalResource: 4 sound cassettes (90 min. each) analog, stereo.Transcripts : 152 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63130317 View

Kleber, John E., 1941-. Lawrence W. Wetherby oral history project, 1978-1984.

Title: Lawrence W. Wetherby oral history project, 1978-1984.

Wetherby and his associates discuss his family history, Louisville politics in the 1930s and 1940s, the Legislative Research Commission, the State Democratic Central Committee, political patronage, the gubernatorial campaign of 1951, road building, tourism, governmental reorganization, economic growth, mental health care improvements, child welfare reform, conservation, education reform, state fairground improvements, the Minimum Foundation Act of 1954, school desegregation, Kentucky State College, election reform, the Registration and Purgation Election Act, the gubernatorial campaign of 1955, and Wetherby's United States senatorial campaign of 1956. People discussed include Thomas Rhea, Mickey Brennan, Neville Miller, Earle C. Clements, A. B. "Happy" Chandler, William H. May, Harry Lee Waterfield, Adron Doran, Bert T. Combs, Doc Beauchamp, Eugene Siler, Louis Cox, William Curlin, Keen Johnson, John Y. Brown, Sr., John Watts, Henry Ward, and Jess Lindsey.

ArchivalResource: 49 sound cassettes (34 hr., 30 min.) : analog, stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64548545 View