Thurston Muskelly - Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action Oral History Project - Oral History Video

About this film

Oral History interview with Thurston Muskelly of the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1170; Leschi Community Council; Central Area Development Association; Central Area Senior Center; and Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action. Completed June 2019. This interview is part of the Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains two parts: oral history audio file and caption track (.srt).

Directors & creators

Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action

Subjects

Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), workers; labor, activism; retirement; Labor Archives of Washington; University of Washington Libraries; labor history; worker stories, Norfolk Naval Air Station; Youngstown Tubing Company; US Public Health Service Hospital; King County Public Healthcare Coalition; Pacific Hospital Preservation & Development Authority (PHPDA), Upward Mobility program; Catholic Seamen’s Club; Central Area Senior Center; Leschi Community Council; Flo Ware Park; Peppi’s Park, American Federation of Government Employees Local 1117; Country Doctor; Harborview Hospital; Black Panthers, Hoover Commission; merchant seamen; US Merchant Marine; flags of convenience (FOC); Seamen’s Union; Emergency Medical Services Act, Watergate; National Health Service Corps; uniformed service treatment facility; Pacific Medical Centers; Public Development Authority (PDA), US Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Region 10; National Maritime Union; Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); Rendezvous bar, Dr. Willard Johnson; Bob Kaplan; David Laud; Tom Byers; President Ronald Reagan; Senator Warren “Maggie” Magnuson; Mayor Charles Royer; Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson; Rebecca “Becky” Johnson, Will Parry; Mayor Greg Nickels; Mayor Paul Schell; Congressman Jim McDermott; Secretary Elliott Richardson; President Richard Nixon; Senator John Heinz; Ray Pilgrim, Dr. Richard “Dick” Tompkins; Senator Slade Gorton; David Stockton; President Jimmy Carter; Joyce C. Andrews Muskelly; unions

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