Oral history interview with Joseph John Jova, 1978
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- 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.