ABSTRACT
The more I’ve discussed oral history with various people, the more I’ve become impressed with the fact that techniques and other aspects of oral history vary with the type of person you’re interviewing. My experience with political figures might be different from someone who is interviewing people in medical research, scientists, early alumni of the University of California, or people in other professions. Likewise, with any large category of people there are individual variations. I interviewed fat old tired congressmen and bright young men who came to Washington with John F.Kennedy, in some cases younger than me. It is an unusual experience to be interviewing someone on Kennedy who is not yet thirty-one years old.
