TEN YEARS IN IRAN – SOME HIGH LIGHTS (4)

By August 1968 we had reached deadlock and it was not until four months later, in December, that the dialogue got going again. Through Senator Abbas Massoudi, owner and publisher of Ettelaht, Tehran’s leading newspaper, with whom I used to discuss our Gulf problems from time to time, I learnt that the Shah liked my suggestion that the United Nations might be used, rather than a referendum, to sound out public opinion in Bahrain.

Oral history and family history - some tips for family historians

How can oral history contribute to family history research? Oral history recordings are a fantastic resource for family historians. Recordings can: • provide wider context about the places where your ancestors lived, the work they did, or local and national events during their lifetimes, bringing color and texture to complement traditional archival sources

Oral history video aims to preserve Dave Obey

WAUSAU — Hours of an oral history video soon will be added to the volume of papers, time and energy retired U.S. Congressman Dave Obey will donate to the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service.

Mel Patton, once the ‘world’s fastest man,’ dies at 89

Mel Patton, a standout sprinter of the late 1940s who won two gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games in London and for 13 years reigned over his sport as the unofficial “fastest man in the world,” died May 9 at his home in Fallbrook, Calif., near San Diego. He was 89.

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