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Oral History of Thomas Quach

Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project

Oral History of Thomas Quach

Narrator: Quach, Thomas

Interviewer: Pham, Michelle Le

Date of Interview: 2013-03-17

Permanent Link To This Item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/11950

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File Name: vaohp0049.1_t01.mp3
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Description: Audio [Track 1] access copy
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File Name: vaohp0049.2_t02.mp3
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File Name: vaohp0049_f01.pdf
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Description: Transcript - English
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File Name: vaohp0049_l01.pdf
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Description: Time Log - English
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File Name: vaohp0049_n01.pdf
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Description: Field Notes - English
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File Name: vaohp0049_p01.jpg
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Description: Wrapper that covered gold leaflet, Photographer Thomas Quach,
  2013
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Description: Thomas Quach vacationing with his cousins from Europe, Photographer
  unknown, date unknown
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File Name: vaohp0049_p03.jpg
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Description: Danh Quach in his first pharmacy; first Vietnamese to own a pharmacy,
  Photographer The Register, 1981
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Description: Photograph of Thomas Quach in his OBGYN clinic in Westminster,
  Photographer unknown, date unknown
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Description: Photo of Thomas Quach and his wife, Jenny Le, Photographer unknown,
  date unknown
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Description: Photograph of a leaflet Quach carried in his pocket during his
  escape from Vietnam, Photographer Thomas Quach, 2013

Additional Information

Summary: This is an oral history of Mr. Thomas Quach, a physician from Orange County born in 1974 in Saigon, Vietnam. Quach is a practicing OBGYN and active member of the Vietnamese community. He is the eldest son of pharmacists Danh Quach and Xuan Nguyen. Quach emigrated from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 as a young child. This interview describes his coming of age and journey towards becoming a physician.

Decade of Birth: 1970-1979

Subjects: Education | Family | Physician | Refugee camp | Clark Air Base,Philippines | Fort Chaffee, Arkansas | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Orange County, California | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam)

Type: Sound

Duration: 01:53:50

Language: English

Provenance: Recorded Digitally

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