March 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Peace Corps and in this latest edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories, Doug Boyd with the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from a Kentuckian who was one of the program's earliest participants. Angene Hopkins Wilson and her then fiancee Jack Wilson got accepted into the program and in 1962 were sent to Liberia. Angene talks about what happened next.
Access the Nunn Center’s full interview with Angene Wilson online: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7bnz80kq5n
Access the Nunn Center’s full interview with Jack Wilson online: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7brv0cvx7w
Access the Nunn Center’s Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project online: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7bdw2tkjfs9
Access the Nunn Center’s Peace Corps: Covid-19 Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project online: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt71d42445pn2
