Justin Frank, Jr. oral history interview

The Scope and Contents note of this oral history was originally generated by feeding the electronic transcript into OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o on 2024 July 9. It was then reviewed and edited by a human.

Oral history interview with Justin A. Frank, Jr. for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Frank recounts his early life growing up in Los Angeles and his early engagement with politics, including his participation in the Young Democrats. He discusses his decision to attend Dartmouth College before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley due to dissatisfaction and homesickness, finding a more politically engaging environment. Frank describes his experience as a medical student at the University of Louisville, where he participated in civil rights marches and faced conservative opposition in Kentucky. Frank recounts his decision to seek conscientious objector status to avoid the Vietnam War draft, describing the legal and personal challenges he faced. He discusses his political activism following the Vietnam War era, including as a leader of the group Physicians for Social Responsibility.