Name
Jova, Joseph John, 1916- (Interviewee)
Morris, Berenice (Interviewer)
Edwin, Ed (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Joseph John Jova, 1978
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Joseph John Jova, 1978
Abstract
Family background; United Fruit Company farm overseer, Guatemala, 1938-41; World War II Navy experiences; Foreign Service diplomatic assignments in Iraq, Morocco, Portugal, Chile; functions of an ambassador and his wife; Chilean politics during Kennedy administration; United States Ambassador to Honduras, 1965-69; economic and social issues, El Salvador-Honduras Soccer War, 1969; Ambassador to Orga nization of American States: schism in Roman Catholic clergy, territorial and trade disputes, Castro's Cuba; Ambassador to Mexico, 1974-77: drug traffic, prisoner exchange, Henry Kissinger and Latin American relations; impressions of Luis Echeverria, other Mexican officials
Collection Name
Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects
Ambassadors--United States; World War, 1939-1945; Diplomacy--United States; United States Foreign relations 1945-1989; Latin America Politics and government; Jova, Joseph John, 1916-; United States. Dept. of State
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1978
Physical Description
sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Note (Biographical)
Diplomat
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Interviewed by Berenice Morris; Ed Edwin
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record
7094833
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/yqx9-pv10
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.