Oral History Interview with Peter Zastrow
Title
Oral History Interview with Peter Zastrow
Narrator (written)
Peter Zastrow
Narrator First Name
Peter
Narrator Last Name
Zastrow
Interviewer
Ben Weinstock
Abstract
Peter H. Zastrow. Class of 1961. Oral history interview for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Zastrow documents his time in the Army during the Vietnam War. He describes his childhood moving across the United States. Zastrow discusses his time as an undergraduate student at Dartmouth, and his involvement in the Glee Club and the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). Zastrow shares how he received a deferment from the Army to attend graduate school, studying English at Indiana University. He describes being sent to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas after graduate school to write and proof-read field manuals for the Vietnam War. Zastrow shares how he was sent to Vietnam to write stories about the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division to be publishes in Army newsletters. After the Vietnam War, Zastrow describes how he participated in anti-war activities with Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
Date of Interview
February 2, 2016
Subject
Dartmouth Alumni
Military Service
Military Service (Army)
Protest/Antiwar Activism
Political Participation
Dartmouth History
Language
English
Rauner ID
DOH-490
Rights
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Interview Audio Source (MP3)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/zastrow_peter/zastrow_peter.mp3
Interview Transcript Source (PDF)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/zastrow_peter/zastrow_peter_transcript_final.pdf
HTML
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/zastrow_peter/zastrow_peter_transcript_final.html