Interview with Thomas Powers

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Contributor

Powers, Thomas ; McKiernan, Stephen

Description

Thomas Powers is an author and intelligence expert. Powers, a native of New York City, earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Yale University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with Lucinda Franks for their articles on Weather Underground member Diana Oughton.

Date

2010-03-07

Rights

In copyright

Date Modified

2018-03-29

Is Part Of

McKiernan Interviews

Extent

87:47

Date of Interview

2010-03-07

Interviewer

Stephen McKiernan

Interviewee

Thomas Powers

Biographical Text

Duration

87:47

Language

English

Digital Publisher

Binghamton University Libraries

Digital Format

audio/mp4

Original Format

1 Microcassette

Material Type

Sound

Interview Format

Audio

Subject LCSH

Authors; Intelligence officers; Awards—United States; Weather Underground Organization; Powers, Thomas--Interviews

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Keywords

Religion; Atheist; Black and White TV; Baby boom generation; Cowboys and Indians; Huckleberry Finn; Catcher in the Rye; Yale University; Anti-War protest; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; SDS; FBI; J. Edgar Hoover; Admiral

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Stephen McKiernan's collection of interviews includes more than two hundred interviews with prominent figures of the 1960s, which were collected between the mid-1990s to 2023 The collection provides narratives of people who were actively involved in or witnessed events in the 1960s, an era which spurred profound cultural and… More

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“Interview with Thomas Powers,” Digital Collections, accessed March 8, 2025, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/925.