How to Interview People for Their Life Stories

Interviewing tips for how to get people to talk about their life stories for articles, oral histories and videos. In this particular situation, two USC students do a mock interview using a crisis situation as the basis for asking the type of open-ended questions that lead to good answers. For more information on how to take an oral history, please check out this Web site http://laflood.citychaos.com/oral-his... The USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is the academic core of the University of Southern California in the heart of Los Angeles. Learn more at www.dornsife.usc.edu