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0:50 - Bingham family background

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Partial Transcript: I asked you about the paper, and your reactions to the paper and information particularly about your grandfather, and I noticed in there, or in connection with your father you corrected my slip there on why your father came to Louisville...

Segment Synopsis: Bingham discusses his families move to Kentucky, correcting an error made by Dr. Ellis, and details a family heirloom sough after by the North Carolina Historical Society.

Keywords: law; law school

Subjects: Louisville

3:19 - Recollections of Robert Bingham Sr.

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Partial Transcript: What else to you remember about your grandfather?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham recounts stories about his grandfather Robert Bingham II, a confederate veteran, describing him as militaristic and rigid. He later talks about his experiences in North Carolina in relation to his family, including a few places named after his family.

Keywords: confederacy; military; school

Subjects: Civil War Robert W. Bingham

7:36 - Education

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Partial Transcript: You said, in an earlier interview, that you went to the Dean's school for one semester, what do you remember just from that experience?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham explains his early life and military education, describing his relatively ill health as a reason for returning to North Carolina before he was transferred to New England.

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8:23 - Memory of Bingham's grandmother

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Partial Transcript: I read and heard very little about your grandmother, Colonel Robert's wife...

Segment Synopsis: Bingham recounts stories about his grandmother, who died when Robert Bingham, his father, was young. He discusses his fathers devotion to his grandmothers memory, and explains the incident where his father wrote a letter to author Margaret Mitchell.

Keywords: family; legacy; old south

Subjects: Margaret Mitchell

10:06 - Civil War stories

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Partial Transcript: In doing research this summer in North Carolina, I saw that letter in your fathers papers at the Library of Congress, and reading the diary at the [inaudible]... where they have a typed script and also the original, your fathers experience, or not your fathers, your grandfathers experience in, as a prisoner, seem to have a very strong influence, did your father or grandfather ever tell you about that experience?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham discusses his grandfathers stories about the Civil War, noting that he shied away from the darker moments of the war but kept up with his former soldiers later in life.

Keywords: battles

Subjects: Battle of South Anna Bridge Civil War Robert E. Lee

14:27 - Progression from Old to New South

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Partial Transcript: How did your father differ from your grandfather?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham explains the differences between himself and his past family members, describing his grandfather as a steadfast defender of a perceived southern way of life, partially defending his grandfathers membership of the KKK before condemning it. He later talks about how he and his father share principles over how press should be treated, and outlines himself as the first member to grow up in a metropolitan environment and the rapid change of the world.

Keywords: journalism; KKK; religious; slavery; southerners

Subjects: Klu Klux Klan Lost Cause myth Reconstruction

18:31 - Description of Robert W. Bingham

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Partial Transcript: Your father thought of himself as being a southerner, how did he, how do you remember him as being a southerner, how was he a southerner?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham describes his father of having the traditions and values associated with the south, such as politeness, high moral and religious character, and his upper south dialect. Bingham notes, however, that his father held some progressive views for a southerner at the time, and is an example of the New South philosophy he adopted after living in Louisville.

Keywords: deep south; upper south

Subjects: League of Nations New South Women's suffrage

22:13 - Bingham family in literature

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Partial Transcript: I wanted to ask you what you thought about the way your grandfather was used for, as sort of an archetypal colonel by Thomas Wolfe?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham discusses the influences his grandfather had one southern literary figures, most notably Thomas Wolfe, and explains his feelings toward their interpretation of his grandfather.

Keywords: grandfather

Subjects: Ashville, NC Thomas C. Wolfe

24:49 - Familial ties to the KKK

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Partial Transcript: One of the things about your grandfather and your great-great uncle, where you surprised, or, when did you hear that they had probably been members of the Klu Klux Klan?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham comments on his grandfathers membership in the Klan, partially defending the first iteration created during Reconstruction, and talks about his work on voicing-over a documentary about his family.

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26:49 - Bingham school

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Partial Transcript: I wanted to ask you a couple more questions about your grandfather who, he seemed to be so devoted to education in the south, what do you remember about the education of the Bingham school?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham discusses his grandfather stewardship of the Bingham school and his devotion to classical and military education.

Keywords: classical studies; faculty; grammar; latin; school-master

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31:06 - Recordings of Robert W. Bingham

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Partial Transcript: Do you have any recordings of your fathers voice?

Segment Synopsis: Dr. Ellis looks into the possibility of any recordings that captured Robert Bingham's voice.

Keywords: radio; speaker; upper south

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32:01 - Bingham Sr's health

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Partial Transcript: One, or, other question about your fathers health, in his correspondence, I've found on several instances two illnesses, and he was ill before he left to go to England... did he have, would you say he had ill health?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham talks about his families struggle with Hodgkin's disease, which affected both his father and son, Barry Bingham Jr.

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Subjects: Hodgkins Disease

34:31 - Criticism against Bingham Sr.

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Partial Transcript: When your father bought out the paper, Arthur Krock later in memoirs had some rather unfavorable things about your father, what do you remember about him?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham discusses the decades-long feud between his father and renowned journalist Arthur Krock, explaining their reason for falling out and why he believes Krock's characterizations are unfair.

Keywords: editorial

Subjects: Courier-Journal The New York Times

38:11 - Bingham philosophy on news

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Partial Transcript: What did, in, of course, you came into the paper in the '30s, but, in the '20s, what were your fathers major ambitions for the Courier-Journal, besides editorial policy, what did he think the paper should be doing?

Segment Synopsis: Bingham details his fathers philosophy on running the Courier-Journal, feeling that the paper should inform and reflect the community it serves. He later talks about his fathers political leanings and his commitment to public service.

Keywords: bi-partisan; fair; monopoly; state government

Subjects: Arthur Krock Woodrow Wilson