Peter Barber oral history interview

Peter D. Barber. Class of 1966. Oral history interview documenting his experience serving in the Vietnam War and engaging in anti-war activism. Barber discusses his early life growing up on the Main Line outside Philadelphia and participating in sports in high school and at Dartmouth, where he was on the soccer, basketball, and baseball teams. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1966, Barber married and began graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Education, but was drafted into the army in 1967. Barber was paralyzed when his spinal cord was injured in a mortar attack. After being discharged, Barber describes how he became involved with Vietnam Veterans Against War and ultimately went on to work for the Social Security Administration for 35 years. Peter Barber died December 22, 2022.