Oral history interview with Joseph Gordon, 2002

Scope and Contents

Childhood and parental reminiscences; religious upbringing and outlook; life up to college; language training and draft into the US Army; arrival and work in Japan: ATIS and Government Section (1945); activities, conditions, mentalities at ATIS; reminiscences of Beate Gordon; involvement in Japanese Constitutional drafting; memories of teaching and studying at Columbia University; ramifications of McCarthyism, both personal and of his colleagues; colleague reminiscences

Subjects

• Cohen, Nicole, interviewer.
• Gordon, Joseph.
• Interviews.
• Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Skabelund, Aaron Herald, interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2003