T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Joseph Favret # 4700.0015

IDENTIFICATION: [1873- ?], veteran of Spanish-American War, centenarian

INTERVIEWER: Michael Mulhern [1947- ]

PROJECT: One of a series of interviews with centenarians by Mulhern as a basis for his paper, "A Lifetime of Contrasts." A copy of that paper can be found in the Polly Mason file, 4700.0041.

DATE: 5/11/74 FOCUS DATES: 1888-1900

ABSTRACT:

Tape 15

Favret's one-hundredth birthday; early education; boxing career; enlistment for service in Spanish-American war; Havana

Tape 16

Sinking of the Maine; American forces in Cuba; New Orleans race riot of 1900, Robert Charles; Mayor Maestri of New Orleans

Tape 17

TAPES: T 15, T 16, T 17 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1 hr. 45 min.

# PAGES INDEX: 2

RESTRICTIONS: Copyright retained by interviewer, interviewee, and their heirs