Bernard's notes on previous interview - Tape recorder failure - During their careers in education through the 40s -60s, they never received orders from anyone stating that they should punish children for speaking French, never punished students, and never witnessed other teachers or administrators punish students in Saint Martin Parish;
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Interview with Elvin Soileau:
00:30 - prairie grass;
01:00 - Native Americans living in the area;
ÒcoonassÓ; G. I. bill; welding; farming; picking up French in the home; Vietnam protesters; cold war; t. v.; air conditioning; plumbing; race relations; supporting WWII; news form the war; movies; cowboys; future of cajuns; tourism
Interview with Ernest Crochet:
00:00 - Says the Navy brought him all around the world, it helped him communicate and get along with people from other places;
00:55 - Americanization - says he doesn't think the war changed him that much;
01:45 - Embracing the Cajun Culture when he came back home;
03:20 - Serving in Korea in a Communications station, was eventually moved to a station in Japan;
07:40 - Says that airplane crashes were a daily occurrence when he was in Korea;
Interview with Elmo Authement:
00:00 - James Domengeaux;
01:30 - Discussion on the term "coonass." Where did the term come from and when?;
00:30 - Was in the Reserves after WWII, was called to serve in the Korean War - was assigned to troop transport;
01:45 - Worked at Nicholls University starting in 1960, was an LSU Junior college at that point;
02:00 - Nicholls was founded for servicemen who wanted degrees after serving;
03:20 - Nicholls was integrated in 1968;
04:10 - McCarthyism;
05:30 - Rumor that he was rooting out Liberals while he was at Nicholls;
06:30 - Dudley LeBlanc;
07:30 - James Domengeaux;
Interview with Allen Simon - continued:
00:00 - Hillbilly/Country and Western Music on the radio - Grand Ole Opry and Louisiana Hayride;
01:55 - Music clubs - lists bands he'd watch at clubs - Larry Brasso, Warren Storm, Bobby Page, J.B. Terry, etc;
03:15 - French music on records - Joe Falcon "Allons a Lafayette;
04:10 - Allen first got a TV in the mid '50s - TVs were called "boite de portrait"
06:45 - Discusses television's effect on the Americanization of Cajuns
00:00 - Outsider views, Hollywood depictions of Cajuns;
01:45 - Justin Wilson, Paul Prudhomme - "Cajun" celebrity popularity
03:00 - Recording tapes in French;
04:50 - Bernard's census research;
08:00 - Simon mentions Horace Trahan's ability to speak and sing in French;
09:30 - Portrayals of Cajuns on TV and in movies - "Big Easy;"
11:30 - Move from the 1950s, originally called "Bayou Folk," title was changed to "Poor White Trash;"
00:30 - Punishments for speaking French - Simon was punished - pinched, had to write lines, had to kneel on rice, etc;
01:15 - Cajun kids had trouble pronouncing "th";
04:00 - Certain schools were less strict with French speakers depending on school leadership;
06:00 - Confidence when speaking English;
06:15 - Camey and Deanna Doucet - Deanna told Allen he sounded much more confident when speaking French;
07:45 - Dudley LeBlanc and Roy Theriot;
