Famed documentarian Ken Burns feature Katharine Phillips prominently in his 2007 documentary The War. She has a great accent, and she has great stories. And some of them aren’t just WWII stories—they’re Auburn stories.
On learning that Pearl Harbor was attacked:
“I was a sophomore at Auburn when Pearl Harbor was attacked. I came home from church, went to the dormitory and heard all this screaming and crying and I went down the hall and I said, ‘What’s the matter? What’s wrong?