The oral-history project also began recording, starting with Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
Begun in 1964, the oral-history project was a unique undertaking to document and preserve interviews with those associated with Kennedy.
Dee Barbato, president of the museum effort, said the oral-history project would most likely begin in September in conjunction with Roosevelt High School's media department.
Later at Columbia she worked on an oral-history project about the politics of ethnicity, a series of over 100 interviews with people who lobbied for Israel.
Participants in a local oral-history project conducted in 1979 by two Vassar College professors indicated that, among blacks, job security was the chief concern.
They have vowed to continue the oral-history project and to memorialize the houses and the hidden life of black Charleston.
Castelli had been interviewed for the archive's oral-history project in 1969, 1973 and 1997.
It is an oral-history project that includes an interactive archive of recipes gathered in Jewish population centers in 13 countries.
Through her efforts, the Bright Beach Public Library sponsored an amibitious oral-history project financed by two private foundations and by an annual strawberry festival.
But the oral-history project sets the Byrne venture apart from more traditional collections of personal correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs.