Collection of Digitized Oral Histories, 1993-2004

This page is under construction.

Introduction

The oral histories in this collection come from three separate oral history collections: The Randall J. Newsome Oral History Collection, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges' Oral History Project, and oral histories conducted by the Biddle Law Library Archives. The Archives will continue to add digital recordings of oral histories to this page as they become available.

You may notice that some of the oral history interviews referenced below are not available online. Due to copyright restrictions we are only able to post to the Web those oral histories for which the interviewee has transferred his or her rights to the Archives, even if we consider the purpose of the collection to be for non-commercial research use. Obtaining permission to make these oral histories available online for research use is an ongoing effort. If you can help us secure the rights to any of the oral histories not linked to on this page, please contact the Archives.

The Newsome and National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges oral history collections were converted from audio cassette tape to digital format in September-December 2008.

Funding

Funding for this project was provided by the Leon S. Forman Bankruptcy Archives Digitization Project, established in January 2008 with gifts from Blank Rome, LLP and the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation.

Resources for Interviewers

The following documents can be used by interviews who wish to record an oral history for the National Bankruptcy Archives.

Documents

Collections

• Randall J. Newsome Oral History Collection
• National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges' Oral History Project
• National Bankruptcy Archives Oral History Program

The Randall J. Newsome Oral History Collection, 1993-1998, 2004

Please note that many of the corresponding transcripts were edited by the interviewee, and therefore may differ slightly from the audio recording.

For more information about this collection, please consult the finding aid.

Babbitt, Roy, 1994 May 3.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Countryman, Vern, 1995 June 2.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

Coutrakon, Basil H., 1996 October 19.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Cyr, Conrad, 1994 October 8.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Danning, Curtis B., 1994 November 3.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

Duberstein, Conrad B., 1994 May 4.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Edwards, Don, 1996 November 19.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

Forman, Leon S., 1993 November 17.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

Gross, Jack, 1996 April 23.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (PDF)

Herzog, Asa, 1993 October 23.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

Transcript (PDF)

Horsky, Charles, 1994 May 11.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Hughes, Robert, 1996 January 20.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
6. Part 6
7. Part 7
8. Part 8

Transcript (PDF)

Kahn, David, 1994 April 13.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Kaplan, Jerome, 1995 May 15.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

Transcript (PDF)

Kennedy, Frank, 1996 October 17.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

King, Lawrence P., 1993 October 19.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (PDF)

Lee, Joe, 1994 December 30.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Macey, Morris W., 1994 April 14.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (PDF)

Miller, Robert, 1998 October 23.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

Morton, Robert, 1998 October 24.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

Nachman, Norman, 1994 December 22.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
6. Part 6
7. Part 7
8. Part 8

Transcript (PDF)

Ordin, Robert, 1994 November 5.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (PDF)

Paskay, Alexander, 1994 April 12 and 1995 October 30 (?).

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (PDF)

Patchan, Joseph, 1993 November 18.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

Palmeri, Victor, 2004 October 26.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (PDF)

Rosen, Leonard, 1994 May 2.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Ryan, Edward, 1996 April 22.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
6. Part 6

Transcript (PDF)

Shapiro, Bernard, 1994 October 30.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
6. Part 6

Transcript (PDF)

Treister, George, 1994 July 9.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
6. Part 6
7. Part 7
8. Part 8

Transcript (PDF)

Trost, J. Ronald, 1994 May 2.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Watson, Chandler, 1994 October 7.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (PDF)

Weintraub, Benjamin, 1994 May 3.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)

White, Harold F., 1996 October 18.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges' Oral History Project, 2004-present

Please note that many of the corresponding transcripts were edited by the interviewee, and therefore may differ slightly from the audio recording.

Video recordings are abridged versions of the full interview and were recorded later.

Adler, Louise Decarl, 2005 July 20

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

Transcript (PDF)

Anderson, William, 2005 June 15-16

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Transcript (PDF)

Blackshear, Cornelius, 2008 October 11

1. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Clark, Glen, 2004 October 10

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Cosetti, Joseph, 2004 October 10

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Fitzgerald, Judith K., 2004 October 12

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Gregg, James, 2004 October 13

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Hershner, Robert F., 2004 October 12

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Houston, David W., 2004 October 12

1. Video Excerpt
2. Part 1
3. Part 2

Transcript (PDF)

Kline, David, 2004 October 11

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Lee, Joe, 2005 October 19-20

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
6. Part 6
7. Part 7
8. Part 8
9. Part 9

Transcript (PDF)

Mannes, Paul, 2004 October 11

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Martin, Robert D., 2004 October 10

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

Newsome, Randall J., 2005 July 20

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

Transcript (PDF)

Paine, George W., III, 2004 October 11

1. Video Excerpt
2. Part 1
3. Part 2

Transcript (PDF)

Small, A. Thomas, 2004 October 13

1. Video Excerpt
2. Audio Recording

Transcript (PDF)

National Bankruptcy Archives Oral History Program

Sommer, Henry J., 2008 April 23 and May 1

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5

Transcript (coming soon)

Norton, William L., Jr., 2009 July 8-10

This oral History was commissioned by the American College of Bankruptcy's History of the College Committee.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Transcript (PDF)