Gary R. Johnson interview, 1984 July 21.

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Gary R. Johnson interview, 1984 July 21.

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Johnson discusses his career as a smokejumper from 1968 to 1984 and the effects of career smokejumpers on the organization. As head of the smokejumpers at Redding, Calif., he discusses women and other minority smokejumpers and the recently added quota requirement.

1 sound cassette (65 min.) : analog + 1 transcript + 1 tape counter index.

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8060007

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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