Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Joseph Gordon, 2002Scope and ContentsChildhood 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
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