Interview with Joseph D. Purvis

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Author

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Summary of Interview

Joseph D. Purvis interviewed by Marvin Goss, September 18, 2002. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Creation Date

2022-02-16

Length of Transcript

16 pages

Publisher

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Keywords

Oral History, Statesboro, Bulloch County

Disciplines

History | Oral History | Social History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections, "Interview with Joseph D. Purvis" (2022). Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History collection. 81.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/specolleoralhistory/81

Language

English

Document Type

Transcript

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Notes

Interviewer: Marvin Goss (MG) Also present: Rosemary Carter (RM), Georgia Southern Marketing and Communications Associate Director Frank Fortune (FF), photographer.

Notes: Joseph David Purvis was born in Willacoochee, Atkinson County, Georgia, in 1916. Graduate of South Georgia Teachers College, 1936. Thirty-two-year career with the FBI (1941-1973). His books are: Savannah Bits and Pieces (1976), The Era of J. Edgar (1998), and Growing Up in Willacoochee (2002).