Collection Title: Jackson Purchase Oral History Project
Series Number: OH013
Interviewee: Ham, John E.
Interviewer: John Watson
Date interviewed: June 21, 1983
Processed by: Sheree Wise
Date processed: January 21, 2009
Description: 1 sound disc (46 minutes)
Abstract: John E. Ham, a World War I veteran, discusses his wartime activities. He describes basic training and relays humorous stories relating to camp life. He mentions camp conditions, morale, furloughs, visits home, recreation and entertainment, and his activities in Little Rock, Arkansas as a canteen manager. Ham offers his impressions of the war from his perspective and the reactions to the armistice. He also discusses the 1920's, the justification for the war, the importance of newspapers during the war and his contacts with fellow World War I veterans.
Biographical / Historical note: John E. Pike was a canteen manager at Camp Pike in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was later stationed at Camp Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. When the Armistice was signed Pike returned to Paducah, Kentucky, where he spent the remainder of his life.
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Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Camp Pike, Arkansas
Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Paducah, Kentucky
Research Notes: Abstract included with oral history.
