Required Forms for Oral Histories

Summary Form

Interviews must be accompanied by a comprehensive and informative summary form for the interview to be accepted and archived in the Marine Corps Oral History Collection. This form is simply a means by which the interviewer records the who, when, where, and most importantly, the contents of the interview. A blank summary form can be downloaded from this site, filled out, and printed for submission with the interview. If submitting your interview on a CD,- the preferred medium- download the summary form, fill it out and save it to your computer as a Word document (.doc) so that you can later include it on the submitted CD. Replace the text on the first six questions from “Interviewee’s Name” through “Dates Covered in Interview” with the requested information. Replace the instructions after “Length” as well. All questions to be replaced are also italicized. Make sure all answers are centered. Fill the fields with as much data as necessary.

Release

Unless the interviewee is on active duty, a release is required that bequeaths full ownership of the History Division’s copy of the interview and associated documents to the U.S. Marine Corps. If submitting your interview on a CD you may also consider filling out the release form, have it signed, and scan it to your computer in order to submit it also with the CD that contains the sound file and summary form. Scan the form using a low resolution and save the scanned image in .tiff format.

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