Bill Gary interview on Atiyeh

Title

Bill Gary interview on Atiyeh

Description

An interview of Bill Gary on the topic of Oregon Governor Vic Atiyeh and the Rajneesh Crisis, recorded on June 14, 2016. Gary was a Solicitor General and later, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Oregon during Atiyeh's governorship. The interviewer, James Moore, was as professor of political science at Pacific University and was Atiyeh's biographer.

The interview includes discussion of: Gary's background as an attorney and how he became the Solicitor General; working under Oregon Attorney General David Frohnmayer; how Gary first became aware of the Rajneeshees; how the Attorney General's office shared information internally regarding Rajneeshpuram; how the governor was considering using the National Guard if violence broke out; dealing with issues connected to the Rajneeshees including constitutionality of their governance, their attempt to rehome and then register homeless people as voters, their internal police force, religious freedom and Second Amendment legal concerns; Atiyeh's tax reforms; the SAIF funding scandal of 1982; and the downfall of "Monte" Montgomery.

This recording is accompanied by a transcript.

Identifier

PUA_MS161_031

Date Created

Jun 14, 2016

Creator

Gary, Bill

Subject

Atiyeh, Victor

Oregon--Politics and government

Rajneeshees

Taxation--Oregon

Extent

1 audio file (57 min.)

Date

2016

Contributor

Moore, James

Format

MP3

Spatial Coverage

Oregon

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/