ORAL HISTORY 2015-17-28 PT. 1 SIDE A. Wendell Kay talks about his personal background, education, law school at Northwest University, why he decided to be a lawyer, his father working as a lawyer, working for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., working for the General Land Office in Portland, coming to Alaska to work as the executive director for the Alaska Housing Authority, George Sundborg, Bob Bartlett, practicing with Warren Cuddy, Ed Arnell, handling different civil cases, fees, no coordination between the different bar associations in the state, their admissions committee, Ralph Rivers, Warren Taylor, what Anchorage was like in the early days, Noel Wenblom, Ray Plummer, Grigsby, Simon Hellenthal, William Plummer, working as a trial lawyer, lawyers and alcohol., Stan McCutcheon, George Grigsby, and Judge Folta.

ORAL HISTORY 2015-17-28 PT. 1 SIDE B. Wendell Kay talks about Marie Cox, how people felt about George Grigsby, Bill Renfrew, Buell Nesbett, the libel suit against the Juneau Empire, trial lawyers working on everything, Morrison Knudson, Jimmy Ing, Judge McCarrey, a murder case, his political career, being identified with his criminal clients, his interest in Alaska, statehood, serving as Speaker of the House in 1955, those opposing statehood, Lester Gore, Bob Jernberg, John Manders, and Arnold, the Robertson, Monagle, and Eastaugh law firm in Juneau, proponents of statehood, McCutcheon, Kay, Kalamarides, Buckalew, Stewart, Taylor, Hellenthal, Cremo, and Groh, Vic Rivers, what lawyers have to do to have a thriving practice, legal education picking up the in the 1950s, Judge Folta's opinion of defending criminals, Judge McCarrey, Stringer, Roger Cremo, Renfrew leaving law practice, and Will Key Jefferson.

ORAL HISTORY 2015-17-28 PT. 2 Wendell Kay talks about Will Key Jefferson learning law, Earl Cooper, Mattie Applewhite, the Integrated Bar Act, Tom Stewart, the first board of governors, Kay, Bill Stump, Bob Parrish, Mike Monagle, and Bob Jernberg, accusations that the bar exam was too stringent, being admitted on reciprocity, the meeting of the board of governors in Nome in 1959, Bob Parrish, Herald Stringer, Ernie Bailey, Bob Jernberg, exchange of poetry about the meeting between himself and Jernberg, lobbying for judges, Ed Davis, Buell Nesbett, Charles Clasby, the Court Bar fight, representing Neil McKay in a Bar disciplinary proceeding, Joe Ball, the campaign against Harry Arend, Buell Nesbett, the negative view of judges and lawyers in Alaska, Stan McCutcheon, John Manders, change in lawyers involvement in politics, Dorothy Tyner, Mildred Hermann, Dorothy Haaland, and Mahala Dickerson.