Douglas Cooper oral history interview

The Scope and Contents note of this oral history was originally generated by feeding the electronic transcript into OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 on 2023 September 1. It was then reviewed and edited by a human.

Oral history interview with Douglas Cooper, class of 1963. Cooper describes his childhood in Ohio and his time at Dartmouth. He shares his experience at Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, followed by his first tour on the USS Morton and what he calls the "Third" Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964. He then discusses his second tour and his transition to civilian life, including attending law school at the University of Wisconsin.