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History: Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, 1971-1972

Interviewee
Collins, Dorothy Craig December 9, 1971 

Call Number
71-053

Physical Description

36 pages; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips 85 minutes; index

Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office.

Interviewer
Jones, James H.

Access Status

Open

Dorothy Collins, born in 1912, discusses her experience as a research assistant in the Kinsey Institute. She speaks about her responsibilities, which mostly involved calculations, and reflects on Dr. Kinsey's personality. She discusses his attitude toward the press, his response to criticism, and his expertise at interviewing, among other things. She also speculates about Dr. Kinsey's reaction to increasingly open attitudes toward sex.

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