Robert Price Interview

This is an excerpt from the first interview I did two weeks ago for the Oriskany project. Robert Price was a 19-year-old yeoman attached to a squadron on the Oriskany in 1966 while in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam.  He was aboard ship on September 26, 1966 when a parachute flare ignited in a weapons magazine causing a massive fire which claimed the lives of 44 sailors. Price recounts the tragic events that unfolded that day and remembers the two friends he lost.