| Title |
Brigham D. Madsen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, January 21, 2003: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 546 & 547 |
| Alternative Title |
Brigham D. Madsen, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Madsen, Brigham D. |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-01-23 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Fort Benning, Muscogee County, Georgia, United States; Germany; Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, United States |
| Subject |
Madsen, Brigham D.--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Germany--History--1945-1955; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946--Personal narratives, American; College teachers--Utah--Biography; Historians--Utah--Biography; University of Utah--History |
| Keywords |
Military instructors; Training officers; Historians; Allied occupation of Germany |
| Description |
Transcript (58 pages) of an interview by Winston Erickson with Brigham D. Madsen on January 21, 2003. From tape numbers 546 and 547 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Madsen (b. 1914) was born in Magna, Utah. He discusses growing up in the railroad town of Pocatello, Idaho; schooling, family, and the Depression. He attended the University of Utah for two years, completed a LDS mission to the eastern central states and attended graduate school at Berkeley for two years, where he studied history. He was drafted in 1942 and took basic training at Camp Roberts in California. He attended OCS at Fort Benning, Georgia, and upon graduation was assigned as an instructor there. He was sent to Germany at the end of the war for occupation duty. He remained there for eight months, during which time he was assigned as the historian of the Third Army. He returned home in July 1946. Madsen returned to Berkeley to finish his PhD and joined the faculty at Brigham Young University. Later, he taught at Utah State University. He served as assistant director of training for the Peace Corps in Washington, DC, and as training director for VISTA. He returned to Utah as the Dean of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Utah and served in several other administrative positions including Administrative Vice President, Director of the Marriott Library, and chair of the Department of History. He returned to a full-time faculty position in history before retiring from the University in 1984. Interviewed by Winston Erickson. 58 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
58 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6pc54gb |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals (Germany : 1945-1946); College teachers; Historians |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1033940 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pc54gb |
| Title |
Page 41 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1033921 |
| OCR Text |
Show Brigham D. Mad en 21 Janua 20 f your department. We had no idea. There wasn t any money. Wen d d m b dy in the department. No idea whether there was any money available for it nobody told u . We didn't have a chance to canvass the nation to find a good man you know. When Fisher said that to me, I said, "The hell, you say." I was so startled I just couldn't beli ve it. Wilkinson had just hired a guy and he wasn't even a historian; he was a geographer. I have to say Fisher was good because later on he went to the University of Utah and became a member of the Geography Department and had a fine career. So Wilkinson chose a good man, but he wasn't a historian and we didn't know. So that's a lack of academic freedom, you know. We had no freedom to choose our own men and I just said, "That's it." So I just quit abruptly. I just wrote my letter ofresignation and on Friday, I sent it to him on Friday, and Monday I had a job as a carpenter working in Salt Lake City. WE: Your father had moved from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake City, then? BDM: Yes, he moved to Salt Lake City. Well, really, he moved to Berkeley, California, after he couldn't get any lumber, all the building stopped. I said, "Come down here. There's lots of work down here." He came down and became the superintendent of a large construction firm in San Francisco and had several thousand people working for him because he knew how to build. He was a contractor and they lacked people like him. So I got him down to Berkeley. WE: So he went to Berkeley while you were there at the beginning of the war? BDM: Yes. So he worked during the whole war, he worked for this man, for Russo Corporation of San Francisco. He built a lot of, he built the big postal building, overseas 40 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pc54gb/1033921 |
