Interviewer: Victoria Phaneuf

Affiliation: University of Arizona

I met Sean Kennedy on board his yacht which was in Pascagoula at a dry dock for a coast guard inspection. I had been given a tour of the yacht by the captain. Mr. Kennedy showed up in the afternoon after doing some errands around time. He is energetic, bouncy, always appears to be thinking about 100 things at the same time and jumping from subject to subject. While I had been visiting with the crew in the morning he would call them every 30-40 minutes to ask a question about this or that, they were never sure what he was working on, thinking, or where he was. They didn't know when he was going to come back, either, and he just arrived at some point mid afternoon. I explained the study and we sat at the counter in the kitchen for the interview. It was uncertain if he thought it was an oral history interview, he said he'd talk to me more over the summer in NY. [Note later: I did go and meet Mr. Kennedy in New York City at Chelsea Pier, where his boat is docked. We had a miscommunication so only had a few minutes to talk, but he pointed out a few things and signed a consent form for the oral history study for this interview. We didn't have time to continue it, however.]