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Interview with Richard Guidry (cont.)

00:00 - Louisiana's education system;
01:30 - History of immersion programs;
03:20 - Parallel Spanish Immersion Program;
07:30 - Process of building immersion programs from nothing;
09:20 - Calcasieu's Spanish immersion program;
11:00 - Influential persons in the immersion movement;
15:30 - Discussing immersion programs around the state;
18:00 - Discussing the timelines of the various French programs starting in the late 60s;
21:00 - Issues with middle school programs;
26:30 - Successes of program in Acadia Parish;

Interview with Richard Guidry

00:25 - CODOFIL was a response to the grassroots preservation efforts of people like Dudley LeBlanc;
02:45 - French education - At first, CODOFIL programs were only teaching French for 30 minutes per day;
04:30 - Bilingual education act was completely separate from the CODOFIL program;
09:00 - Deficiencies of the early CODOFIL programs;
14:30 - Recruiting Canadian French teachers;
19:00 - Shortcomings of how teachers were hired;
20:45 - Retaining hires with J1 visa;
22:00 - Developing a curriculum guide for the bilingual program;

Interview with Carl Brasseaux (cont.)

00:00 - Cajun culture becoming trendy in France in the 70s;
01:30 - Bernard's theory on why Cajun culture became more popular around America in the 1980s;
02:00 - Oil bust caused many Cajuns to move, they started restaurants around the country - Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando, DFW, Houston;
03:45 - Images of Cajuns in the media;
07:25 - "Culture for sale";
10:00 - CODOFIL and Edwin Edwards;
12:20 - Rumor about CODOFIL being infiltrated by the FBI and CIA;
15:45 - War protests;

Interview with Carl Brasseaux (cont.)

00:00 - Cajuns views on FDR, Truman and Eisenhower;
02:30 - Religious divide in the '50s;
04:30 - Climate of the South;
07:15 - Jimmy Carter;
09:00 - Reagan and Carter's administrations;
12:30 - Populism;
14:00 - Cajuns during this time were socially conservative but willing to follow populist candidates;
16:50 - David Duke;
22:20 - John Breaux;
24:30 - C.J. Bobby Dugas - references a speech he gave in the 70s;
27:00 - "Coonass"

Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet (cont.); and Carl Brassueax

Interview with Barry Ancelet:
00:00 - Domengeaux - Wanted to integrate LA with the rest of the French speaking world - "He wanted to do it by getting us to speak Standard French, I wanted to do it by forcing the French speaking world to accept us on our own terms;
00:55 - It made sense for us to use the existing French spelling and writing systems;
02:45 - bias against Louisiana French;
04:30 - More discussion about Faulk's book;
05:30 - More about Domengeaux's opinions on Louisiana French, reactions by locals;

Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet (cont.)

00:00 - Organizing the first Cajun Music Festival; Keith Cravey and Carol Rachou's roles in the festival;
03:30 - Booking artists for the festival, Paul Tate resigning from the committee;
04:40 - No artists were paid, but they all showed up and performed;
05:20 - Purposely designed the festival to not allow dancing. They considered having it in Bayou Bijou, then the Heymann Center before settling on Blackham Colosseum;

Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet (cont.)

00:30 - More thoughts on Jimmy Domengeaux;
02:00 - Problems within French education; importing French teachers;
04:20 - You can teach kids standard French, while still reinforcing "their own" French. Teaching standard French in school is a non-issue;
05:45 - Domengeaux would always apologize for the way he spoke French, Didn't care for Cajun/Creole music;
07:15 - Genteel Acadians and Cajun music - The thought of it as bas clas;
08:00 - Dewey Balfa changes Domengeaux's mind (to an extent) on Cajun music;

Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet

00:45 - Cajun revival - Bernard says there are two concurrent movements - Genteel Acadian movement, parallel grassroots movement in the mid 60s;
05:45 - James Domengeaux/CODOFIL;
07:20 - Balfa Brothers at Newport Folk Fest. Barry talks about how he, Zachary Richard, and their peers were involved in the revival;
09:00 - He was a student aid at CODOFIL for a while. Mentions that he and Zachary were sometimes militant, would refuse to speak English at times;
10:30 - Other leaders of the revival - David Marcantel, Warren Perrin, Richard Guidry;

Interview with Cleve Thibodeaux and Eause Dugas

00:00 - Flooding on his land;
00:45 - Talking about bad roads in his area;
02:45 - French in school;
03:20 - More discussion on his bomb shelter - They were most worried about radiation;
04:45 - Building of the shelter. Someone in Lafayette designed and built it, used 20 tons of concrete, also had a well installed that the shelter can access;
07:30 - Food storage in the shelter;
09:30 - Using the shelter for storms;
10:10 - Targets for potential bombings;
11:30 - U.S. Government compiling data on how many private bomb shelters existed

Interviews with Raymond Blanco and Cleve Thibodeaux

00:45 - USL ROTC building bombing - anit-war movement;
01:55 - 3 students involved in bombing;
04:15 - Blanco says there was a car with dynamite found behind the sudent union - they were planning to blow up the Lafayette Courthouse;
06:00 - More about the students who bombed the ROTC building;
08:00 - Integration - Blanco says USL had the first African American football and basketball student athletes;
11:40 - Cajun hippies;
12:15 - "The most militant people on this campus were ex-seminarians";
13:00 - Flag protests;

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