- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Don Speicher oral history interview, 2018-06-01
- Creator:
- Speicher, Don
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2018-06-01
- Subject:
- Underground newspapers
Counterculture
Hippies
Civil rights movement
Pawnee Indians - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mpeg
- Description:
- Don Speicher was born in Pittsburgh in 1946 and grew up there. He attended Allegheny College from 1963-1967. After graduating, he joined the VISTA program and moved to Atlanta. In Atlanta, he joined the staff of The Great Speckled Bird. After Atlanta, Speicher lived in Boston, working as an assistant for the Police Commissioner. After Boston, Speicher and his family moved to Pawnee, Oklahoma, where he owns a lumber yard.
In this interview, Speicher begins by discussing his early life in Pittsburgh. He then discusses his time in college and joining the VISTA program. He talks about moving to Atlanta and joining The Great Speckled Bird. He discusses his role at The Bird and the atmosphere of the era. He then discusses his work in Boston and moving to Oklahoma. He concludes the interview by reflecting on his time at The Bird and his current political priorities. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10258
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Speicher, Don, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, June 1, 2018, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:52:26
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
