But without those W.P.A. interviews — firsthand accounts by people who lived, for part of their lives, as slaves — much of the history of slavery would be unrecoverable.Wilkerson, realizing that the generation of Americans who lived under Jim Crow won't be around much longer, set out to talk to them.
They had field reporters in nearby homes, interviewing witnesses firsthand.
To collect data on treatment costs as well as decision-making heuristics for treatment method selection, we interviewed stakeholders with firsthand experience implementing juniper treatment projects on the Modoc Plateau (UC Davis IRB #420715-1).
He read voraciously about the battle, and both he and Mills interviewed veterans to collect firsthand information.
Today I've spent listening--to my contacts on social media, to firsthand witnesses interviewed on the news, to comments from friends via text, to commentators and analysts.
Yet he does an outstanding job of sifting truth from gossip, traveling to London, Paris and even South Africa to interview people with firsthand knowledge of the eminent Dr. Ernest Fox and his beautiful young wife.
And Mueller's investigators have already interviewed multiple top officials with firsthand knowledge of these episodes.
The Pakistani officials interviewed said that they had firsthand knowledge of the connections, though they denied that the ties were strengthening the insurgency.
The Times also interviewed 25 people who saw firsthand the destruction wreaked by the planes, because they escaped from the impact zone or above it in the south tower, or from just below it in the north.
Over 17 years, the author interviewed 357 people, many with firsthand memories of scholars who shaped the way the Talmud has been studied like the rabbis Hayyim Soloveitchik, Nosson Tzvi Finkel and Aaron Kotler as well as the author's father, Jacob Kamenetsky.
In a note in Fear, Woodward writes that the book "is drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand participants and witnesses to these events".
