Oral History Interview with Jim Spriggs, August 16, 2007 Page: 1

                                
Jim Spriggs Oral History Interview

MIKE ZAMBRANO: This is Mike Zambrano. Today is August the
sixteenth, 2007. I'm interviewing Mr. Jim Spriggs.
JIM SPRIGGS:  Yeah, Jim Spriggs, yes.
MZ: Who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. This interview is taking
place over the phone from my home in Round Rock. This
interview is in support of the Museum of Pacific War
Studies' archives of the Pacific War and Texas Historical
Commission for the preservation of historical information
related to this site. And I'm just going to lay this right
down near the phone here, and how are you today, sir?
JS: Oh, I'm fine.
MZ: Well all right. Well, let's start off with the most basic
of questions. Can you tell me where and when you were
born?
JS: I was born March the fourteenth, 1925, in York, Kentucky.
And that's in Greenup County, Kentucky, which is the
northeast corner of Kentucky.
MZ: OK. And what were the names of your parents?
JS: My father's name was Floyd Spriggs. And my mother's name

was Grace Spriggs.
MZ: And how many brothers and sisters did you have?
JS: I have one brother and two sisters.

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