Oral history interview with Greg McCurdy conducted by Claytee D. White on March 7, 2013 and August 21, 2013 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. McCurdy discusses growing up in the early Westside neighborhood as a boy and his work as a police officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). He then talks about retiring after 30 years of service and his following career overseeing the Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Investigations Group at the LVMPD.
Norma Morrow Zuckerman was born May 26, 1949 in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of Southern California, and chose the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for her master’s program in theatre. Zuckerman married her husband, Eugene, on May 06, 1989 in Beverly Hills, California. In 2008, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada alone and continued to commute from there to Los Angeles to see her husband and children.
Simone Salen's parents survived the Holocaust, and she describes her life as a miracle. She was reunited with her father's diary, which he kept during the Holocaust, and translated it into English.
In this audio clip, Gil Shaw talks about being the default historian for Congregation Ner Tamid, and his interest in preserving history for future generations.