| Creator: | Indiana University Center for the Center for Documentary Research and Practice |
| Title: | Autobiography: Hobert Billingsley |
| Collection No.: | ohrc007 |
| Dates: | 1980 |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 1 Interview (Audio files, transcripts, and collateral materials ) |
| Abstract: | Hobert Billingsley shares his life experiences. He discusses his childhood, education, and work experiences. He discusses his passion for diving and recalls those people and places which have made an impact on his life. |
| Location: | Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030A. Contact ohrc@indiana.edu for more information. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office. |
| Language: | Materials are in English |
| Repository: | Center for Documentary Research and Practice Franklin Hall 0030B 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Business Number: 812-855-2856 ohrc@indiana.edu URL: https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu/ |
This collection contains one interview, lasting sixty minutes. The interview consists of one tape and a typed transcript.
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
No(s): 80-026
Physical Description: 32 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 60 minutes; no index
Scope and Content Note: Hobert "Hobie" Billingsley, born in 1926, shares the story of his life. He talks about growing up in an impoverished, broken family. He recalls joining the YMCA at a young age, and through that began diving, which was a major turning point in his life. He discusses the focus diving put into his life, and describes the many championships and competitions he was involved in. He discusses fulfilling his dream to attend Ohio University and the hardships he endured in order to study there. Billingsley talks about his time serving in the United States Army Air Corps. He recalls working with his best friend in their water show before becoming a coach at Indiana University.
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