An interview with Dr. William Cobb

We wrapped up a great interview this evening with Dr. William Cobb who is a history professor at UVU. (UVU is in Provo Utah, for any who are interested.) Dr. Cobb has written a book about the American Foundation Myth. In his book he discussed points related to Western films and their roll in perpetuating the idea that as Americans we feel we have a destiny. Initially that was Westward expansion. Today it is in discussion as to whether we are to be a beacon\example to the rest of the world or to fight and physically spread our ideals. The bulk of the book looks at Viet Nam and how that war effected the Myth and our peoples belief in it. Dr. Cobb made some interesting points in his book and I encourage anyone interested to give it a read. (Amazon)

I'm really happy with how the interview went. Roger Blomquist, our Associate Producer has a class of historians working on our project and they participated tonight by asking the interview questions while I ran the camera and technical stuff. We had a great time got some fantastic sound bites.