| Title |
Jack Goodman, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998 |
| Alternative Title |
Accn 998, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Jack Goodman |
| Description |
Transcript (71 pages) of interview by Leslie Kelen with Jack Goodman on November 16, 1987 for the Interviews with Jews in Utah Oral History Project. |
| Creator |
Goodman, Jack, 1913-2003 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949-; Oral History Institute |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1987-11-16 |
| Date Digital |
2015-07-06 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993 ; New York City, New York, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5128581 |
| Subject |
Jews, American--Utah--Interviews; Goodman, Jack, 1913-2003--Interviews; Radio broadcasting--United States |
| Abstract |
Jack Goodman (b. 1913) talks about growing up, his schooling, and his career in journalism. He recalls working for the New York Post and the New York City Radio Station during World War II, and coming to Salt Lake City, Utah, to work for KALL Radio after the war. He talks about politics in Utah, the civil rights and socialist movements, and his move from newspaper and radio to television. 71 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
71 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Is Part of |
Interviews with Jews in Utah collection, 1982-1988, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv70657/ |
| Scanning Technician |
Niko Amaya; Halima Noor |
| 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/s6mg9j73 |
| Topic |
Jews, American; Radio broadcasting |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
905554 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mg9j73 |
| Title |
Page 35 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
905516 |
| OCR Text |
Show • the wife's hometown. We had been going to get married at City Hall by Mayor LaGuardia, who by that time I knew, not well but from contacts every Sunday. And that would have been a speedy way of getting married. And Marjorie's folks said no, we'd better get married out here. Have a formal, you know, rabbinical wedding. My poor mother and _father couldn't get out there. They couldn't leave the store. Mother was almost going to come, then she couldn't. Father couldn't so I was married without benefit of my own parents, as it were. It was the first time I was ever West of Chicago. I'd been to Chicago again for a World's Fair. But we came out, I came out on the train. Marjorie came out by train too and I'd never seen Salt Lake before. We you had to get here a day or two before you got married because you had to have a blood test. I went to their family physician, had a blood test, met all th~ relatives. Which were considerable in number. I seem to remember getting off the train and being greeted by this whole regiment of Rosenblatts. Marjorie's grandfather was alive then. And stayed at their house on Butler Avenue and as one of the excursions they drove me up to Alta. I'd seen ski jumping. We broadcast ski jumps at Bear Mountina some, but I'd never seen mountains like that. It was May, early May and there was a lot of snow on the mountains. And I said, "Yeah, but where do they ski?" I was absolutely confounded by the steepness of the mountains. I never thought anybody could ski on stuff that steep. At any 34 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mg9j73/905516 |
