William Yaggy oral history interview

The Scope and Contents note of this oral history was originally generated by feeding the electronic transcript into OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4 on 2024 February 7. It was then reviewed and edited by a human.

Oral history interview with William Yaggy, Class of 1967, for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. He begins by recounting his early life growing up in Missoula, Montana. He details his education at Dartmouth College, his initial decision to join the Navy ROTC, and his later application for conscientious objector status due to his skepticism about the Vietnam War. Yaggy describes his alternate service in a hospital stockroom and at the Lakeside School, as well as his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, including an arrest at the Pentagon and a legal victory on appeal. He gives an account of his post-Dartmouth career in theater and nonprofit fundraising, his liberal political beliefs, and his family life with his wife and two sons.