Chicago Cold War: Jim Darby
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- Created Date
- 2012-06-26
- Description
James Darby served in the United States Navy during the early 1950s. He was a coder and typist, stationed in the Mediterranean, and he was trained in the Russian language. He was also a gay man in the military and left after this service. He was concerned that he would be discovered and discharged. Darby later worked with the Chicago Mayor's Council on Veterans Affairs.
- Creator
Darby, James
Hudzik, Maribeth
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- United States. Navy
Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Cold War
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Military intelligence
LGBT
Veterans - Format
- Audio file: 1:09:49 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2017 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Darby, James, Hudzik, Maribeth. Chicago Cold War: Jim Darby. 2012-06-26. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/247. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Darby, James, Hudzik, Maribeth, (2012-06-26) Chicago Cold War: Jim Darby. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/247
- MLA citation style
- Darby, James, Hudzik, Maribeth. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/247>.