Rafael Joel. Interview, October 21, 2025.
subject: Songwriters -- United States
subject: Folk music
subject: Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967
subject: Folk music — United States — The Joel Rafael Band
subject: Folk music festivals—United States
subject: Music festivals—Oklahoma
subject: Woody Guthrie Folk Festival
subject: Baez, Joan, 1941–
subject: Communism—United States
subject: United States Merchant Marine
subject: Lynching—United States
description: Joel Rafael is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician from San Diego County, California. Joel has been making music with his band and solo for over fifty years. He is well known for his writing and performance in the style of Woody Guthrie. In this part three interview, Rafael discusses the activities and dissolution of the Joel Rafael Band and his twenty-seven years performing at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.
creator: Joel Rafael
publisher: California State University San Marcos University Library
date: 2025-10-21
contributor: Jennifer Fabbi
rights: In copyright
format: video
language: English
coverage: Salinas (Calif.)
coverage: Los Angeles (Calif.)
coverage: Austin (Tex.)
coverage: Santa Monica (Calif.)
coverage: Okemah (Okla.)
coverage: Boley (Okla.)
coverage: New York (N.Y.)

Toro, Albert F. Interview November 15th, 2024
subject: United States. Army—Veterans
subject: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961–1975
subject: Veterans—United States—Chile
subject: United States. Army—Noncommissioned officers
subject: Fort Ord (Calif.)
subject: Travis Air Force Base (Calif.)
description: Albert F. Toro is a Chilean American who served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, reaching his highest rank of E5 Sergeant. Toro described being drafted and deployed to Vietnam. As a Supply Noncommissioned Officer (NCO), Toro provided artillery units in combat zones with ammunition and food. Toro shared his life story as both an immigrant and veteran, including the ostracization and shame many veterans experienced upon their return from Vietnam. This oral history interview explores topics such as comradery, independence, military training, mentorship, college, recreation, fear, immigration, and veteran recognition.
creator: Albert F. Toro
publisher: California State University San Marcos University Library
date: 2024-11-15
contributor: Jason Beyer
contributor: Marilyn Huerta
contributor: Adel Bautista
rights: In copyright
format: video
language: English
type: Moving image
coverage: Vietnam
coverage: Chile
coverage: United States
coverage: Santiago (Chile)
coverage: Monterey Peninsula (Calif.)
coverage: Tan Son Nhut (Vietnam)
coverage: Saigon (Vietnam)
coverage: Củ Chi (Vietnam)
coverage: Cần Thơ (Vietnam)
coverage: South Vietnam
coverage: Mekong Delta (Vietnam)
coverage: South America
coverage: San Francisco (Calif.)
coverage: Los Angeles (Calif.)
coverage: Torrance (Calif.)
coverage: San Marcos (Calif.)

Cole, Kevin. Interview transcript, November 28, 2012
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011
subject: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
subject: United States. Marine Corps
subject: USS Cole Bombing Incident, Aden, Yemen, 2000
description: Transcript of oral history interview with Kevin Cole. Cole served with the Marine Corps as a Rifleman from 1998 - 2007. In his interview, Cole recounts his personal motivations for enlisting with the Marines and for enlisting as a Rifleman, as well as his family's civic-minded nature. Cole also discusses his bootcamp and on-the-job training with the Marine Corps, as well as the two-year cycle of Marine life: training, joining a larger joint unit, deployment, and downtime. Cole recounts two deployments, ship life aboard his deployments on Naval vessels, the bombing of the USS Cole, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and how attitudes towards Marines and the armed services shifted in the wake of those attacks. Cole ends his interview by relaying his reasons for reenlistment after 9/11. This interview was conducted as part of the CSUSM Veterans Voices project, a collaboration of the California State University San Marcos History Department and CSUSM Student Veterans Center (now the Epstein Family Veterans Center), from 2012-2013. Veterans Voices (originally called War at Home and Abroad) documents, preserves, and makes accessible the experiences of CSUSM's student veterans. This interview was conducted with a "self-interviewing" protocol, a process drawn from a technique known as Digital Storytelling, which invites the narrator to self-author the interview, telling their story from their perspective, in their own words, and in their own manner. Narrators were provided a list of topics and interview guidelines emphasizing that they could use all, some, or none of the topics as they fashioned their stories about military service and related experiences, thus allowing each narrator to decide what they deemed to be historically important.
creator: Kevin Cole
publisher: California State University San Marcos University Library
date: 2012-11-28
rights: In copyright
format: text
language: English
coverage: Lynn (Mass.)
coverage: Twentynine Palms (Calif.)

Aguilar, John. Interview transcript, May 21, 2013
subject: Afghan War, 2001-2021
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011
subject: Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (U.S.)
subject: United States. Marine Corps
subject: United States. Marine Corps -- Recruiting and enlistment
subject: Veterans -- Health aspects -- United States
subject: Veterans -- United States
subject: Veterans' spouses
description: John Aguilar, Jr. is a Marine Corps veteran who served from 2001-2005. In his interview, Aguilar recounts his motivations for enlisting with the Marine Corps and his experiences at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, 29 Palms, California. Aguilar also offers his thoughts and experiences regarding the trauma and changes wrought by combat deployments on veterans and their families, his work in information technology in the Marine Corps, and his perspective on the Iraq and Afghan wars, media manipulation, anti-Arab racism and societal glorification of and prejudice towards veterans. This interview was conducted as part of the CSUSM Veterans Voices project, a collaboration of the California State University San Marcos History Department and CSUSM Student Veterans Center (now the Epstein Family Veterans Center), from 2012-2013. Veterans Voices (originally called War at Home and Abroad) documents, preserves, and makes accessible the experiences of CSUSM's student veterans. This interview was conducted with a "self-interviewing" protocol, a process drawn from a technique known as Digital Storytelling, which invites the narrator to self-author the interview, telling their story from their perspective, in their own words, and in their own manner. Narrators were provided a list of topics and interview guidelines emphasizing that they could use all, some, or none of the topics as they fashioned their stories about military service and related experiences, thus allowing each narrator to decide what they deemed to be historically important.
creator: John Aguilar, Jr.
publisher: California State University San Marcos University Library
date: 2013-05-21
rights: In copyright
format: text
language: English
coverage: Twentynine Palms (Calif.)

Brodowsky, Glen. Interview June 14th, 2024.
subject: California State University San Marcos
subject: California State University San Marcos. Administrative Building
subject: California State University San Marcos. Faculty Senate
subject: California State University San Marcos. Jewish Faculty and Staff Association
subject: California State University San Marcos. Marketing Department
subject: Cross-cultural marketing
subject: Gonzalez, Alexander
subject: Haynes, Karen S.
subject: Intercultural marketing
subject: Neufeldt, Ellen
subject: California State University San Marcos--Faculty
description: Interview discusses Brodowsky’s career at CSUSM, starting with his journey into academia and his experience during the early years of the university, the campus, his work in development of policy and initiatives, as well as marketing, including the campus logo. Interview also discusses Brodowsky’s work in service at the university, his relationship with past university presidents, intercultural and cross-cultural marketing, his approach to teaching both at CSUSM and abroad at Brodowsky’s visiting professorships, the Jewish Faculty and Staff Association and the campus Jewish community, and his past year as Faculty Senate Chair.
creator: Brodowsky, Glen
publisher: California State University San Marcos University Library
date: 2024-06-14
contributor: Visintainer, Sean
rights: In copyright
format: audio
language: English
coverage: San Marcos (Calif.)

Carr, Jim. Interview, September 26, 2017
subject: Barcoding
subject: Distribution Services
subject: California State University San Marcos
subject: Fixed asset tracking
subject: San Diego State University
subject: Sustainability
description: Jim Carr spent 23 years at California State University San Marcos working for the Distribution Services team and was instrumental in implementing the first barcoded inventory tracking system for the University. Jim discusses his time working for CSUSM as part of Distribution Services and how his education and background led to him this job.
publisher: California State University San Marcos University Library
date: 2017-09-16
rights: In copyright
format: audio
language: English
coverage: San Diego (Calif.)
coverage: San Marcos (Calif.)

Williams, Elmer Royce. Photographs, Various dates.
description: Five photos related to the oral history of Elmer Royce Williams. Photograph #1 depicts Williams dressed as an Aviation Cadet at an unknown location and unknown date. Photograph #2 depicts Williams posing with a P105 plane in Saipan, 1946. Photograph #3 depicts Camilla and Elmer Royce Williams on their wedding day in Clinton, Minnesota, June 1, 1947. Photograph #4 depicts Mark, Elmer Royce, Bruce, and Craig Williams having Christmas dinner, December 25, 1962. Photograph #5 depicts Commander Neilsen T.L., Camilla Williams, and Elmer Royce Williams at the arrival of VF-33 from Key West, U.S. Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia, January 2, 1965. Click on the thumbnails to view the full images in more detail.
date: undated - 1962

Forster, James Robert II. Photographs, Various dates.
description: Four photos related to the oral history of James Robert Forster II. Photograph #1 depicts Forster II at basic training Lackland Airforce Base in 1967. Photograph #2 depicts Forster II at tech school at Sheppard Air Force Base, WIchita Falls, Texas, 1968. Photograph #3 depicts a C-47 plane from flight squadron VC-470 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 1969. Photograph #4 depicts Forster II at Osan Air Base, South Korea, 1969. Click on the thumbnails to view the full images in more detail.
date: 1967 - 1969

Oral history of David Shaffer, November 20, 2025
subject: US Air Force
subject: Captain
subject: Cold War
subject: Consolidated Aircraft
subject: B-24
subject: B-32
subject: Convair
subject: VJ Day
subject: Victory over Japan Day
subject: 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment
subject: American Civil War
subject: Prussian
subject: British
subject: American Revolution
subject: German
subject: American
subject: cavalryman
subject: Fort Bliss
subject: Galloping Goose
subject: Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
subject: Denver University
subject: San Diego State University
subject: marine engine mechanic
subject: Officers Training School
subject: Second Lieutenant
subject: air traffic controller
subject: Keesler Air Force Base
subject: TERPS
subject: Terminal Instrument Procedures
subject: forward airfield
subject: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
subject: Six-Day War
subject: Sinai Peninsula
subject: Lajes Field
subject: Strategic Air Command
subject: General Curtis LeMay
subject: Officer in Charge
subject: Hahn Air Base
subject: B-36
subject: B-36 Peacemaker
subject: A model B-36
subject: engineer
subject: little people
subject: Lackland Air Force Base
subject: officer trainee club
subject: officers' club
subject: FAA
subject: Federal Aviation Administration
subject: ATC
subject: Navy
subject: Tinker Air Force Base
subject: BFS
subject: Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung
subject: Jimmy Stewart
subject: World War II
subject: First Lieutenant
subject: 1634B
subject: AFSC
subject: Air Force Specialty Code
subject: 1634A
subject: airmen
subject: sergeant
subject: traveling
subject: childhood
subject: Davis–Monthan Air Force Base
subject: B-52
subject: McGuire Air Force Base
subject: Colonel
subject: 50th Tactical Fighter Wing
subject: Ramstein Air Base
subject: Hitler Youth
subject: military police
subject: BMW
subject: Afrika Korps
subject: POW camp
subject: Marshall Plan
subject: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
subject: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
subject: Federal Republic of Germany

Shaffer, David. Interview transcript, November 20, 2025.
subject: US Air Force
subject: Captain
subject: Cold War
subject: Consolidated Aircraft
subject: B-24
subject: B-32
subject: Convair
subject: VJ Day
subject: Victory over Japan Day
subject: 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment
subject: American Civil War
subject: Prussian
subject: British
subject: American Revolution
subject: German
subject: American
subject: cavalryman
subject: Fort Bliss
subject: Galloping Goose
subject: Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
subject: Denver University
subject: San Diego State University
subject: marine engine mechanic
subject: Officers Training School
subject: Second Lieutenant
subject: air traffic controller
subject: Keesler Air Force Base
subject: TERPS
subject: Terminal Instrument Procedures
subject: forward airfield
subject: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
subject: Six-Day War
subject: Sinai Peninsula
subject: Lajes Field
subject: Strategic Air Command
subject: General Curtis LeMay
subject: Officer in Charge
subject: Hahn Air Base
subject: B-36
subject: B-36 Peacemaker
subject: A model B-36
subject: engineer
subject: little people
subject: Lackland Air Force Base
subject: officer trainee club
subject: officers' club
subject: FAA
subject: Federal Aviation Administration
subject: ATC
subject: Navy
subject: Tinker Air Force Base
subject: BFS
subject: Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung
subject: Jimmy Stewart
subject: World War II
subject: First Lieutenant
subject: 1634B
subject: AFSC
subject: Air Force Specialty Code
subject: 1634A
subject: airmen
subject: sergeant
subject: traveling
subject: skiing
subject: childhood
subject: Davis–Monthan Air Force Base
subject: B-52
subject: McGuire Air Force Base
subject: Colonel
subject: 50th Tactical Fighter Wing
subject: Ramstein Air Base
subject: Hitler Youth
subject: military police
subject: BMW
subject: Afrika Korps
subject: POW camp
subject: Marshall Plan
subject: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
subject: Bundesrepublik Deutschland