Joe Gordon oral history interview

1978-12-08

Gordon, Joseph; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Joe Gordon conducted by Marlene Mayo on December 8, 1978. Joseph Gordon ( - 2012) was born and raised in New York, where he attended City College, earning a degree in business administration. After college he worked for two years while learning Japanese and joined the Army in 1943. During the Occupation, Gordon was Chief Interpreter at General MacArthur’s GHQ. He was present for the negotiations about the Constitution, along with his future wife Beate Sirota Gordon who contributed to the rewriting of the Japanese Constitution. He got married when he returned to the United States in 1948. Gordon passed away in 2012.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; New York (N.Y.)

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:27:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 47 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087545