Experience as first student in UC Berkeley Cowell Hospital residence program for severely disabled students, 1962; role of campus administrator Arleigh Williams, Dr. Henry Bruyn, nurses and attendants; fellow disabled students John Hessler, Catherine Caulfield; social life at Cowell, political organizing of disabled students, media attention; relations with State Department of Rehabilitation; genesis of independent living movement.
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Edward Verne Roberts: Oral History Interview with Edward Verne Roberts, Director, California Department of Rehabilitation, 1975-1983;Activist for Severely Disabled Students, UC Berkeley, 1962-1967
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Roberts, Edward Verne. "Edward Verne Roberts: Oral History Interview with Edward Verne Roberts, Director, California Department of Rehabilitation, 1975-1983;Activist for Severely Disabled Students, UC Berkeley, 1962-1967." Interview by Susan O'Hara in 1994. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1994. Interview date(s) 1994
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