Interview with Bill Freeman

Interview with Bill Freeman

Construction industry

Farm life

Freeman, William, 1925- -- Childhood and youth

Freeman, William, 1925- -- Family

Freeman, William, 1925- -- Interviews

Sailors

Trucking

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans

Bill Freeman is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in 1925, Freeman grew up in Waynesville and was recruited to the Navy when he was 17 years old. He talks about his time in the Navy during World War II. Freeman was self-employed except for a short time at Champion Paper Company. He talks about his trucking business, chicken operation, and building houses. He also discusses his affiliation with the Masonic Lodge.

Freeman, William, 1925-

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2017-04-20;

Wade, Nathan

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35850

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35850

2018-02-06

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Jackson County (N.C.)

01:18:43 (sound recording)(duration)

21 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina