Jerry Collins, Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee
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Jerry Collins, 23 years old when recorded in 1939, was from Morristown, in Hamblen County, Tennessee. He had about twelve years of formal education and worked as a CCC cook and later a U.S. Army sergeant.
[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]
[C = Jerry Collins; I = Interviewer]
C: Well, we got to the last stretch of town over there and about come up Company Street, lost control of the car, It turned over on the first curve out here before we got started to town, and I just turned over, the Lieutenant and all the boys come running up, turned it back over and the radiator’s smashed up on it, Wilfred's on a bunch of buckets, Jack’s under there cussing, Lieutenant throws a xx on there, guy on top of it had to get back in it to turn the switch key off, and we got it turned back over where he got in and started on off, and Lieutenant grabbed him and wouldn’t let him go, we finally put eight or seven weeks confinement camp, we stayed in here so long we got horny and went to town, got drunk over there, and they locked us up for w-, disorderly conduct and reckless walking, uh I don’t know.
I: Going too fast without brakes.
C: Yeah, going too fast without brakes.