| Title: |
Rhoads Murphey
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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: |
Rhoads Murphey is a man of many titles, in a different age we might have called him a jack of all trades, and I use the term with the utmost respect.
55 years ago he traveled to China to work for the Friends Ambulance Unit. Driving old Chevrolet trucks, which had been converted to burn charcoal, this international group of young men braved bandits, bureaucratic red tape and, of course, the Japanese to bring much needed medical supplies to various far flung sights in southwest China. Although Rhoads was in China for only four years, 1942 to 1946, he packed a lifetime of experiences into them...seeing sights that most of us can only dream of and meeting people that we of a younger generation can only read about in history books.
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| URL: |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/murphey.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1998 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Murphey, Rhoads
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Conscientious objector; Professor
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| Document date: |
1998
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| Interviewer: |
Willensky, Marcus
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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--Conscientious objectors; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Friends Ambulance Unit
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029296-32453
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