Joan Franklin interviews American poet, writer, critic and satirist Dorothy Parker in 1955 for the Popular Arts Project. In this excerpt Parker explained her move to Hollywood in the early 1930s and discussed the attraction to writing for film.

Dorothy Parker: Hollywood

South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman describes her first meeting with Nelson Mandela while he was a prisoner on Robben Island in this 1984 interview.

Helen Suzman: Meeting Nelson Mandela

Joseph O'Neill, a medical student when AIDS first appeared in San Francisco in the early 1980s, became one of the nation’s first doctors to specialize in AIDS treatment. In this excerpt from his 1995 interview, O’Neill recalls the case that changed his life.

Joseph O'Neill: The AIDS Epidemic

Actress Judith Anderson, interviewed in 1971 for an oral history project on the Hollywood film industry, recalls her misadventures shooting the film, “A Man Called Horse.”

Judith Anderson  A Man Called Horse

Kenneth Lipper, former New York City Deputy Mayor, explained how an incident in a movie theater, not only illustrated Mayor Edward I. Koch’s personal style but also shed light on his tremendous success as a New York City politician.

Interview Session: 1992

Kenneth Lipper: Campaigning with Koch

In a 1985 interview Mario Savio, American political activist and leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, recalls the Freedom Summer of 1964 and his experience during the campaign to register black voters in rural Mississippi.

Mario Savio: Mississippi Summer

American Psychoanalyst Muriel Gardiner recalls an evening in 1938 when Nazi soldiers and sympathizers marched into Vienna.

Muriel Gardiner: Vienna, 1938

Actress Nita Naldi, interviewed in 1959 for a project on the American Popular Arts, describes how she won the lead role in the iconic film “Blood and Sand.”

Nita Naldi: Blood And Sand

In a 1971 Arkansas Governor Orvil Faubus defended his record on Civil Rights and recounted a private meeting he had with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the midst of the Little Rock school desegregation crisis in 1957.


Orvil Faubus: Little Rock

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, in this 1977 interview conducted by Ed Edwin, recounts how he first learned of his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall: Appointment

On Tuesday, September 18th, 2012, the Columbia Center for Oral History and the Oral History Master of Arts program were delighted to co-host Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening, editors of the latest Voice of Witness title Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Columbians Displaced by Violence. Students of the Oral History Master of Arts program had the chance to sit down with Max and Sibylla for a Q&A session which covered several fascinating topics, including how they started this project, their interviewing methodologies, their book editing process, and their responsibilities to their narrators.

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