interview techniques
Lawrence Ritter said he had to keep his subjects focused. He had a woman friend who was helping, running the tape recorder or something, and he had to ban her from the interviews as she would go off subject and distract the old guys. He said he wasn't happy about it, but it was necessary.
As I understand it, he hired someone to make transcripts of the interviews and they simply went on and on.
Riter was, I guess, pretty good at editing the stories down.
Henry Thomas can, perhaps, add to that.
lumberjack
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