T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

 

ABSTRACT

 

INTERVIEWEE NAME:   John A. Cox [1912-2003]                         # 4700.0490

 

IDENTIFICATION: LSU student — 1934-1938

 

INTERVIEWER:                 James Frye       

 

PROJECT: LSU History

 

DATES: 18 January 1995                                           FOCUS DATES:                 1934-1938

 

ABSTRACT:

 

Working for Head of Horticulture Research Julian Miller and receiving a free room in exchange for work; Pentagon Barracks; Greek Theater; students selling hamburgers on campus to pay tuition; discusses pay for student jobs; location of University Lake; WPA construction on campus; Steele Burden and location of sidewalks; Huey Long and LSU student body; Russell Long as student government president; death of Huey Long; stringing telephones lines for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC); Steele Burden and landscape of campus; Memorial Grove

 

TAPES: T704                                                                       TOTAL PLAYING TIME:                .5 hour

 

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT:                18

 

RESTRICTIONS:               None