Charles Bennett Darden Oral History Interview, September 17, 1973

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Charles Bennett Darden Oral History Interview, September 17, 1973

September 17, 1973

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/OH0057/

Darden served as a tobacco specialist for the U.S. government in Iraq (1952-1956). He discusses his work among the Kurdish people in the northern border area, internal conflicts within Iraq, agricultural developments in the area, and his admiration of the people with whom he worked.

0.005 Cubic Feet; 1 audiocassette, 1 hour, 7 pages

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11665339

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Lennon, Donald R.

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>Don Lennon was a longtime director of the East Carolina Manuscript Collection and Coordinator of Special Collections. Born in Brunswick County, North Carolina on October 6, 1938, he attended junior college in Wilmington, NC before completing his studies at East Carolina College. He taught school and worked in the North Carolina state archives before returning to East Carolina to assist with the creation of a historical manuscript collection. He passed away in Greenville, NC on April 26, 2018.Do...

Darden, Charles Bennett, 1910-1978

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Charles Bennett Darden (1910-1978) served as a tobacco specialist for the U.S. government in Iraq (1952-1956). Charles B. Darden, a tobacco farmer of Ahoskie, N.C., spent over four years in Iraq with the United States International Cooperative Administration as a Tobacco Specialist (1952-1955) and as an Agricultural Extension Advisor (1955-1956). As a Tobacco Specialist, he acted as Director of the Tobacco Improvement project of the Iraq Tobacco Monopoly in the Ministry of Economics. He also coo...