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1. Interview of Norm Abramson

Topic:
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Inventor of ALOHAnet, a project that created a wireless radio packet switched network which was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) an agency of the government that develops technology for the military.

2. Interview of Jane Acem

Topic:
Social Movements
Environmental Illness
Length:
3.5 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
Biographical Note:
Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Developed MCS after workplace exposure. Patient advocate.

3. Interview of Lilia Aceves

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Length:
14 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
generation and to explore family and community life in war-time Los Angeles. Individuals selected for this
Biographical Note:
Founder of the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional and first director of the Chicana Action Service

4. Interview of James S. Ackerman

Topic:
Art
Length:
14.35 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Art History - Oral Documentation Project are part of a cooperative venture between the Oral History Program and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, documents a generation of scholars who developed and elaborated paradigms of art history establi...
Biographical Note:
Art historian and professor at Harvard University with a focus in Italian Renaissance architecture history.

5. Interview of Rhea C. Ackerman

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
7.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Assistant superintendent at Los Angeles Juvenile Hall and assistant administrator at Children’s Hospital.

6. Interview of William C. Agee

Topic:
Art
Length:
3.7 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series focuses on the history of the Pasadena Museum of Art and its role as a pathbreaking venue for contemporary art in Southern California in the 1960s.
Biographical Note:
Curator and director of the Pasadena Art Museum.

7. Interview of John F. Aiso

Topic:
Asian American History
Politics and Government
Length:
3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Lawyer and judge. Director and head instructor of the Military Intelligence Service Language School

8. Interview of Arthur L. Alarcon

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
9.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
Biographical Note:
Deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County from 1952 until 1961. Judge for the Ninth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals from 1979 to 2015.

9. Interview of John Allard

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Union organizer and president of United Automobile Works (UAW) Local 230.

10. Interview of Joseph Allen

Topic:
Chinese Studies
Area Studies
Length:
5.5 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The past sixty years have been an important period in the development of Chinese studies in the U.S and Canada. Those years have seen increased funding from Title VI and other sources, the evolution of new fields and areas of specialization, and the systematization and professionalization of scho...
Biographical Note:
Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies and founding chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota.

11. Interview of Laura Allen

Topic:
Social Movements
Environmental Movement
Length:
2.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
regional environmental organizations. Represented groups embody a wide range of issues, including
Biographical Note:
Educator in the area of greywater systems and Greywater Action founder. Author of The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape. Resident of Los Angeles Eco-Village.

12. Interview of Marcia Alper

Topic:
Community History
Length:
5.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
elderly congregants with a focus on the history of the Pasadena Jewish community prior to World War II
Biographical Note:
Congregant of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center.

13. Interview of Ted Alvy

Topic:
Music
Length:
11.83 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series includes interviews with individuals involved in behind-the-scenes or on-the-air presentation of rock music in Los Angeles area during its critical period of growth and importance, the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on both the music itself and the culture that accompanied it as rock mus...
Biographical Note:
Producer and disc jockey for the Los Angeles area's first underground rock radio station, KPPC.

14. Interview of Glenna Amos

Topic:
American Indian History
Length:
1.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series American Indian Relocation Project document the experience of American Indians who came to Los Angeles as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' urban relocation program in the 1950s and 1960s. The initial interviews were conducted by students in Professor Peter Nabok...
Biographical Note:
Cherokee. Came to Los Angeles as part of the American Indian Relocation.

15. Interview of Curtis Amy

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
6.4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
, role, or experience. Particular areas of focus include the African American musicians' community and
Biographical Note:
Saxophone player and bandleader.

16. Interview of Kamala Ananth

Topic:
Community History
Length:
2.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The South Asian Women in Los Angeles series documents the lives of a number of women who are first generation South Asian immigrants and who lived or currently live in the greater Los Angeles area. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Biographical Note:
Immigrant from India.

17. Interview of Ronald Andrade

Topic:
American Indian History
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series American Indian Relocation Project document the experience of American Indians who came to Los Angeles as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' urban relocation program in the 1950s and 1960s. The initial interviews were conducted by students in Professor Peter Nabok...
Biographical Note:
Pueblo. Came to Los Angeles as part of the American Indian Relocation.

18. Interview of Oliver Andrews

Topic:
Art
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally
Biographical Note:
Sculptor and UCLA professor of art.

19. Interview of Eva Andry

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
1.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
Biographical Note:
Art director, production designer, and visual artist.

20. Interview of Nancy Angelo

Topic:
Social Movements
Women's Issues
Art
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
such as education, social services, and the art world in Los Angeles. Several of the oral histories
Biographical Note:
Performance and video artist. Involved in the Women’s Building, a center for feminist art in Los Angeles.