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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lt. Col. Joe N. Ballard
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lt. Col. Joe N. Ballard.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 55 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Chief of engineers, corporate chief executive, and military officer Joseph Nathan Ballard was born on March 27, 1942 in Meeker, Louisiana. Ballard attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, majoring in electrical engineering. He graduated in 1965 and joined the U.S. Army. He was one of very few African Americans assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Between 1993 and 1995, Ballard served as Commander of the U.S. Army Engineer Center at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Ballard continued to work his way up the ranks and in 1996, became the first African American Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army. In 2000, Ballard retired from the U.S. Army. That same year, he became president and chief executive officer of a business development company called the Ravens Group, LLC. In 2002, he founded TRG Construction, Inc., a general contracting firm, where he also served as president and CEO.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Lt. Col. Joe N. Ballard
Lt. Col. Joe N. Ballard
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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