Interviewer: Victoria Phaneuf

Affiliation: University of Arizona

The interview took place in a meeting room of the Pascagoula Public Library. Joe Dempster is a tall man with salt and pepper hair and beard. We had met at a friend's easter egg hunt a few weeks earlier and made the arrangements to do an interview for the shipbuilding study, when we met I re-introduced that study, answered some questions, and introduced the oral history study. He agreed to participate and we started the interview. Since this will be transcribed, the recording was not used in typing up these notes.

The picture is a bit idyllic, but he recognizes that, and provides a more detailed image of his father after work than I've seen yet about any of the workers at this time.