| Title: |
Joe Bonito
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Collection: |
Personal Oral History
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| Description: |
This is a transcription of an interview that occurred on March 2, 1999, over the phone from Ann Arbor to Port Huron, MI. The interviewee is my father who was born in August 1933 in Erie Pennsylvania, where he grew up. His parents, my grandparents, were Italian immigrants and he grew up within a very ethnic and close-knit community. He was a young child during World War II, which I hope will give a more unbiased recollection. His older brother Carmel, my uncle, was in the Navy in the Pacific at the time and is referred to a number of times during the interview as a stepping stone for various memories and issues. My grandfather, and Joe’s father, owned a small grocery store next to their home. Joe now resides in Port Huron, MI. He has been retired for three years from teaching and has a Masters degree in History. I have made every attempt to faithfully transcribe what was said but have had to, in some cases, hone his responses in order to provide grammatical clarity, while never straying from the greater truth within the statement. Our conversation went as follows.
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| URL: |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/Joseph.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Bonito, Joe, 1935(?)-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1935
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| Age at speaking: |
64
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| Document location: |
Michigan
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| Document date: |
02-Mar-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Bonito, Joseph E.
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Michigan; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Biography; Interviews; Local history; Michigan; Michigan--History; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--History; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029265-32382
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