VT2017-4

Administrative Information

Running Time
45 minutes
Restrictions
Undetermined
Description
March 2003. GEORGE F. KENNAN INTERVIEW. Alpine Video Productions. Ambassador Kennan discusses his family background, his early life in Milwaukee, his education at Princeton, his career in the Foreign Service, his training as a Russian expert, his involvement in the creation of the Marshall Plan, his trip to Japan, his association with the Institute for Advanced Study, and his relations with John Foster Dulles, Dean Acheson, and Douglas MacArthur. Also present are his wife Annelise, his son Christopher (who taped the conversation), the sculptor Elmer Petersen, and Wm. Vocke of the Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. At the end of the interview, Kennan discusses plans to honor him with a monumental sculpture in Milwaukee, and expresses regret at his inability to attend the Kennan Forum in Milwaukee.
Date(s)
March 1, 2003

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Moving Image Type
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