J387 INTERVIEW SUMMARY SHEET
SECTION A:
Name of interviewee:
Year of birth:
Ocupation (now or before retirement):
Telephone number:
E-mail address:
Date and time of interview:__in person __by phone__by e-mail
How do you know the interviewee?
Description of the historical event:
Year of the event:
Year that you were born:
SECTION B:
1. If you conducted an e-mail interview, print out a complete
transcript and attach it to this sheet.
OR
2. If you conducted your interview in person or by telephone,
complete the following:
a. Summarize and paraphrase your questions and the interviewee’s
answers:
Example:
Q: Hi, Grandma. Thanks for doing this. So here’s my question: Can
you tell me about a national or international event that had a lot of
impact on your life?
A. Well, my life was changed when Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in
1992—or was it ’93?—because that’s when I left Miami and moved out to
California to be near your parents.
Q. I can see how that would be a very big change in your life.
But I wonder if you could think back a little further, to sometime
before I was born, which was in 1985 (just in case you forgot the
birthday of your favorite grandchild).
A. I know when you were born! Don’t be sassy! Something that
changed my life, eh? I guess that would be the U.S. invasion of
Grenada in 1983 when my nephew was killed. Only 19 U.S. soldiers
died, and he was one of them.
Q: I’m so sorry. I’ve heard my parents say that was really hard
on the family.
A. Yes, it was. My sister—your great-aunt Marge—really has never
recovered.
Q. Can you think back to how the Grenada invasion was covered in
the newspapers and tell me a little about that?
A. You know, it was a big surprise to everybody. We didn’t even
know it was going to happen and then after it happened, nobody seemed
to care that American boys had died. I don’t remember anything about
that in the newspapers….
b. Write out completely two (or more) direct quotes from your
interview that will be useful as evidence in your paper.