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Question of the Day By CRYSTAL STEVENSON and The American Press - Associated Press - Saturday, April 17, 2021
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - Listening intently behind the camera, Jason Theriot has recorded more than 200 World War II veterans as part of a two-decade passion project to document their oral histories before they are all gone.
He’s hoping to find even more.
“I had an idea to interview my grandfather, maybe some of his friends, about their World War II experiences and write a short book about them,” Theriot said. “I had taken journalism at LSU and I had a niche for writing and had a bit of an obsession about World War II going back to when I was a little kid.”
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UL Lafayette filmmaker Rabalais âFinding Cajunâ to air on LPB Wednesday
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The University of Louisiana at Lafayetteâs Dr. Nathan Rabalaisâ film âFinding Cajunâ will air on Louisiana Public Broadcasting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10. The one-hour documentary examines Cajun identity.
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By UL Lafayette Office of Communications and Marketing
The University of Louisiana at Lafayetteâs Dr. Nathan Rabalaisâ one-hour documentary film âFinding Cajunâ will be televised by Louisiana Public Broadcasting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10.
Rabalais, who wrote and directed the documentary, interviewed academics, historians, sociologists and musicians who discuss language, culture and race in the context of a much-debated topic â Cajun identity.