South Carolina Veterans Oral History / Media Type: Audio

1. Tom McConnell oral history interview, November 4, 2011

Creator:: McConnell, Tom, 1926-2013 (interviewee)
Collection:: South Caroliniana Library Oral History Collection
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

2. Robert S. "Bob" Olson Oral History Interview, September 23, 2011

Creator:: Olson, Robert S. "Bob" (interviewee)
Collection:: South Caroliniana Library Oral History Collection
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

3. Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Edward Aberman, Mary Ann Pearlstine Aberman, Jack Leader, Harriet Marshall Goode, and Martin Goode

Collection:: Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
Institution:: College of Charleston Libraries

4. "I tell you and can report to you that the GI Education Bill did more to eliminate classism in this nation than all the legislation in the history of this nation combined"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

5. "Again I want to place some emphasis on the factualism and the fact that South Carolina politics in that day and even today to a great extent is personalized"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

6. "This was October '45, well there was a political campaign coming up in '46"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

7. "One of 7 brothers to serve in the armed forces of the United States of America, boy, you can imagine that kind of spiel on the stump"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

8. "Well here I was two years in the House and I guess I jumped the traces, and got into the race for the United States Senate"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

9. "They selected him and it was a beautiful selection. He lived in my district, yet he sorta personally disliked Maybank so therefore he could do with us some sincerity; he could lambaste Maybank"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

10. "I remember coming home was kind of a disappointment. I'd packed everything up and gone home and nobody was there. Mother and Daddy had gone."

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

11. "Then we didn't have any Republican opposition. That's another thing Professor, that you didn't have to worry about that day and time. You'd receive the Democratic nomination in the primary and was tantamount they always said to the election"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

12. "And on the night that VE Day was announced everybody in the ETO, European Theater of Operations, went wild. It was more dangerous to be out that night then it would be in combat-bullets flying everywhere, everyone shooting off their guns"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

13. "It's just a plain question of votes. The black people had been disenfranchised and they couldn't vote"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

14. "I don't remember doing much of anything, I didn't even file for an office until I got to Washington and then they didn't have an office"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

15. "I was going to depend on that campaign on what pulled me through on all my campaigns, no organization, no money, but on the stump"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

16. "The best government business in the whole world, education is good business"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

17. "Dorn this is the time, you'd better run"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

18. "Here was these dresses, 20,000 girls, just passing back and forth, you know the GI's mouths just flew open"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

19. "That case destroyed the white primary"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

20. "I was impressed with Versailles, not only the architecture, which amazed me every time; I used to ramble around over the palace everyday when I got through with my little work at the radio van"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

21. "I was in opposition to these lend-leases, these give aways by the United States government"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

22. "England lived better then, during the War, this was a personal observation and the books I guess would deny that, but to hell with that, I know what I am talking about. They lived better than they ever lived the people told me, I was a GI"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

23. "There was a lot of places in Germany that manufactured beer that was untouched by the bombing"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

24. "It indicated to me how foolish the French were to think you could build a stationary, static line, and secure a nation's future for all time"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

25. "The central figure of that time in Washington was President Harry Truman"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

26. "My idea simply was to ensure the defense of western Europe, to tell them no, we aren't going to let Communism come a foot further"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

27. "And this is the first time I remember meeting a fella by the name of John F. Kennedy"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

28. "A GI is a funny individual, some people think they don't know much but they know everything"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

29. "If you couldn't speak, you better stay out of the race for governor, senator, or congress"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

30. "And lo and behold, this committee received the most important piece of legislation of the 80th Congress, perhaps one of the 2 or 3 most important bills in Congress since World War II, the unification of the armed forces"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

31. "But I had to overcome some hurdles-one was the most difficult thing I have ever been confronted with politically"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

32. "My observation was that most of them I came into contact with were very bitter against England and America for breaking up their farms, bombing everything"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

33. "You just did not have in 1946 any black people participating in the primary"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

34. "He'd say now little boy blue, come blow your horn, and the people would all laugh of course this was a kind of mockery. It was sort of difficult to overcome to start out following all that carrying on"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

35. "In your political science classes it's difficult for 'em to understand that time and circumstance determines political outcome or outcome of a political race more than anything else. You cannot foresee intangible factors developing like it did in that race"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

36. "I just have to admit it, I was a fanatic on air power"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

37. "So this seemed like a new day, a new crowd, and the media covered us"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

38. "Here was the Russian ambassador to the United Nations callin' lil' ol' Dorn the number one warmonger of the United States of America"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

39. "Every night we could hear George Patton shelling the forts at Metz"

Creator:: Romine, Ron
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

40. "So why join the American Legion?"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

41. "Everywhere I go, I try to leave a little bit of optimism, boost people up but quite frankly we're not in the best shape in the world"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

42. William Gravely audio notes, 1985 May 22, part 2

Creator:: Gravely, William (compiler)
Collection:: William Gravely Oral History Collection on the Lynching of Willie Earle
Institution:: University of South Carolina. Department of Oral History, University Libraries

43. William Gravely audio notes, 1985 May 22, part 1

Creator:: Gravely, William (compiler)
Collection:: William Gravely Oral History Collection on the Lynching of Willie Earle
Institution:: University of South Carolina. Department of Oral History, University Libraries

44. "You know Russia has never put a man on the moon, not to this day"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

45. "I'm not going to quote the Bible tonight, I learned better than that a long time ago"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections