Jim Roehm oral history recording

Other Media

https://exhibits.lib.pacificu.edu/files/original/5098607bf40577d056b6b30368f77f11.mp3

Title

Jim Roehm oral history recording

Description

An audio recording of an oral history of Jim Roehm on the effects of the Vietnam War in Hillsboro. Roehm was a college student just before the war and later joined ROTC. The U.S. was involved in a guerilla war in Laos/Vietnam during his sentior year of college. In the military, he was stationed in Texas for 9 months then sent to Panama for training in jungle warfare. For two years, he was a platoon leader and executive officer of the company in Vietnam. Overall, Mr. Roehm remembers Hillsboro being a fairly conservative town, there being only one individual he would describe as an

Contributor

Jones, Eric

Creator

Roehm, Jim

Date

2001

Is Part Of

Century High School collection

Format

Audiocassettes

Language

English

Identifier

WCM_OH_459

Subject

Washington County (Or.) -- History

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American

Rights

In Copyright

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Extent

1 sound cassette (32 min.)

Spatial Coverage

Washington County (Or.)

Vietnam

Hillsboro (Or.)

Type

Sound

Source

Washington County Museum