Peace Corps @ 65, Kentuckians remember joining JFK's 'New Frontier' initiative

March 2026 marks the 65th anniversary of the start of the Peace Corps and in this latest edition of WUKY's Saving Stories, Doug Boyd with the Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares audio from a Kentuckian who was one of the program's earliest participants. Angene Hopkins Wilson and her eventual husband Jack Wilson got accepted into the program and in 1962 were sent to Liberia. Angene talks about what happened next.

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Peace Corps @ 65, Kentuckians remember joining JFK's 'New Frontier' initiative is an episode from Saving Stories by WUKY.

This episode is 5:00 long.

This episode was published on Mar 18, 2026.

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