Bob Smith Interview
Date3/10/2004
MediumSony [me]DVM60
Dimensions1:02:39
ClassificationsArchive
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center
Object number031004-1
DescriptionBob T's officeCollections
Finding AidTimeCode Shot
0.01.42.00 mom & dad, sharecroppers
0.02.09.00 went to CA
0.06.00.00 sisters & brothers
0.07.13.00 work
0.08.00.00 2nd wife (Hylie)
0.10.52.00 drinking got bad
0.13.40.00 """this is our home now"""
0.17.20.00 Hylie talks about meeting Bob
0.23.00.00 Hylie talks about demonstrations in CA
0.24.00.00 Bob becomes a hippie
0.27.00.00 Ronald Reagan
0.28.15.00 Bob's connection to the tribe
0.29.12.00 helping at the pow wow
0.30.25.00 has spent as much time treating as drinking
0.31.14.00 being on TV up north
0.33.00.00 Hylie talks about alcohol prevention
0.34.10.00 Bob talks about alcohol prevention
0.34.50.00 KOREA - joined when 16, submarine vs. paratrooper
0.35.40.00 Korea heating up
0.36.20.00 first jump into Korea
0.37.45.00 stayed in Korea - having a good time
0.40.30.00 Mae West parachute photo
0.41.15.00 182 - plane they jumped from
0.41.40.00 34' tower
0.42.25.00 first jump (again) - behind the lines
0.43.20.00 surreal feeling
0.44.00.00 most scared in whole life
0.45.00.00 people are trying to kill me - hardest thing to understand
0.46.10.00 fighting for the 2 guys on either side
0.47.00.00 North Koreans were tough fighters
0.47.30.00 first jump (again) - getting hit with bayonet
0.48.30.00 Penicilin
0.49.00.00 jump from 500'
0.51.00.00 absolute terror (again) - knee mortor
0.52.10.00 jumped 20 times before landing in airplane, poker game
0.54.00.00 trench in the night, Bob away on R&R, third of the men killed
0.55.45.00 pictures of brothers
0.56.30.00 Korea (again) - flanker guard, bug-out man
0.58.00.00 """we used knives"""
0.59.20.00 """if you don't do your job, you're dead"""
0.59.30.00 cut throats
031004-1
1.00.01.00 Bob drank to get away from it, decompressing, car back-fired
1.00.40.00 Hylie talks about taking many years to learn about Korea from Bob