This Begins an Interview with Lee Eli Baar on September 18Th, 2007 In
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY NEW BRUNSWICK AN INTERVIEW WITH LEE ELI BAAR FOR THE RUTGERS ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVES WORLD WAR II * KOREAN WAR * VIETNAM WAR * COLD WAR INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY SHAUN ILLINGWORTH and JESSICA ONDUSKO and BEN-ZION JAFFE ELMWOOD PARK, NEW JERSEY SEPTEMBER 18, 2007 TRANSCRIPT BY DOMINGO DUARTE Shaun Illingworth: This begins an interview with Lee Eli Baar on September 18, 2007, in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, with Shaun Illingworth … Ben-Zion Jaffe: … Ben Jaffe … Jessica Ondusko: … Jessica Ondusko. SI: Thank you very much for having us here today. Lee Eli Baar: No problem. SI: To begin, could you tell us where and when you were born? LB: Bronx, New York, on Fox Street. I hear it's a hell of an area now. I have never been there. Unfortunately, my mother passed away when I was about five or six years old. I never really knew her. That top shelf there, the fellow on the end was my brother, my sister, my mother and my father [pointing to picture]. Of course, they're all gone. Picture below that, that's me and my wife, our wedding pictures. I was still in uniform, I was still in the service. My father remarried [a] widow, you know, he was a widower, she was a widow and he married a woman who made Cinderella's step-mother look like Mother Theresa. I shouldn't use the word like a bitch-on- wheels, should I? SI: Well, no, but go ahead. LB: She was a very, very lousy-type person.
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