Bezos, Miguel "Mike"
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content: Allison, David Kite
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content: Velasquez, Steve
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Yeingst, William
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.)
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content: Family of Voices Oral History Collection
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content: Family of Voices Oral History Collection / Born-Digital Interviews / Audio Interviews
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content: 830.92 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 01:22:19, audio/wav)
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content: 2016-10-20
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content: Item NMAH-AC1365-BDA0004
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Audio
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content: Oral history interview with Miguel "Mike" Bezos, former engineer and manager at Exxon Mobil and co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. Originally from Cuba, Bezos recounts his childhood in Santiago de Cuba during the Cuban Revolution; immigrating to the United States as part of Operation Peter Pan; life as a teenager at Camp Matecumbe in Florida and Delaware; moving to Washington, D.C. after high school, where he worked at a McDonald's; attending the University of Albuquerque, where he started his family; building a career at ExxonMobil; and Cuban-American identity through food, family and language.