Henry Ward colleagues oral history project, 2004.

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Henry Ward colleagues oral history project, 2004.

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

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.

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

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7884316

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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