Collection:LPB

Genre: Interview

Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Vietnam

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2017-12-6

Duration: 00:39:08

Subjects: United States. Marine Corps. | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 | Military | Veterans

Contributors:

• Best, Kenneth Interviewee

An oral history interview conducted on December 6, 2017, with Kenneth Best of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Best served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. He discusses: his ROTC training at Georgia Tech; his decision to join the Marine Corps; his training as a naval flight officer and electronic countermeasures officer; his assignment as a legal officer in Japan; flying reconnaissance missions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail; returning home; the death of his fraternity brother in an airplane crash during the war; attending reunions of his basic school class; and his role in organizing the memorial services at the reunions for the eleven officers from his class who died during the war.