Oral history interviews with Mexican political leaders and other personalities : Mexico, 1964-1965.

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Oral history interviews with Mexican political leaders and other personalities : Mexico, 1964-1965.

Tapes and transcripts of interviews with the following Mexican leaders, conducted by Mr. Wilkie and Edna Monzón de Wilkie: Salvador Abascal, Aurelio R. Acevedo, Juan Andreu Almazán, Silvano Barba González, Clementina Batalla de Bassols, Ramón Beteta, Juan de Dios Bojórquez, Alfonso Caso, Luis Chávez Orozco, Daniel Cosío Villegas, Carlos Fuentes, Francisco Javier Gaxiola, Jr., Marte R. Gómez, Manuel Gómez Morín, Martín Luis Guzmán, Luis L. León, Germán List Arzubide, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Aurelio Manrique, José Muñoz Cota, Melchor Ortega, Ezequiel Padilla, Miguel Palomar y Vizcarra, Emilio Portes Gil, Manuel J. Sierra, Jesús Silva Herzog, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jacinto B. Treviño. Interviews relate to Mexican history and politics, particularly from 1910-1940.

Transcripts : 1 carton.Phonotapes : 62 sound tape reels : analog, 1 7/8 ips, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 5 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7083833

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Batalla de Bassols, Clementina.

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Padilla, Ezequiel, 1890-1971

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Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919

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Emiliano Zapata (b. 8 August 1879, Morelos, Mexico–d. 10 April 1919, Morelos, Mexico) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. He was born in the rural village of Anenecuilco (Morelos State), where peasant communities were under increasing pressure from the small landowning class who monopolized land and water resources for sugar cane production with the suppo...

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Andreu Almazán, Juan.

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León, Luis L., 1890-1981

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Caso, Alfonso, 1896-1970

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Alfonso Caso (1896–1970), famed for his 1932 discovery of Tomb 7 at Monte Albán in Oaxaca, was an attorney-turned-archaeologist from the intellectual elite of Mexico City, and the first director of both the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, established in 1939, and the Instituto Nacional Indigenista, established in 1948. He produced more than 300 publications on Mexican history and archaeology, including such well-known titles as La religión de los aztecas (1945), Urnas de Oaxaca (...

Sierra, Manuel J., 1885-

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Ortega, Melchor.

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Bojórguez, Juan de Dios, 1892-

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Wilkie, Edna Monzón de.

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Treviño, Jacinto B. 1883-1971

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Siqueiros, David Alfaro

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Gómez, Marte R.

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Muñoz Cota, José.

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Wilkie, James Wallace

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