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Office Mensrandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT “pre ¥teoho. - pare: APPél 8, 1248. . . 2 —_— From : Ms. A. Jones . —— ‘Tsupyect:; DR. ALFRED C. KINSEY Ee — . At. Harbo. | i: Peon — ! Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey of Indiana University was ko born at Hoboken, New Jersey, tn 1894 according to an article——— appearing tn Look magazine, 12-9-47. He was educated at Harvard and at one tine wrote a well-selling biology textbook for high School students. 7) According to He lemenko, author of the arttole, "Toward A Saner Sez Life,” Kingey’s re Passton was tnsect teronoay which in reality was the naming, desertbing.and classt fication of ~ tnsects. . . ~ . Kinsey ts a professor of zoology and btology at Indiana atpersity. For the pest 9 years he and his assoctates Wardell and Clyde E.XWartin “have been trudging up and down : Ghd deross: these United States taking the sez htstortes of their fellow Americans. They expect to conttnue this actiutty for at least 20 years more" according to Clemenko. publication. of the volume XSezual Behavt fale.” Although thts book was editte Jotntly by Kinsey, Pomeroy and . Martin, ensey seems to be the only name connected with this -Becently volune sual national recognition with the work ahd. h ,Glone has recetved the Ppublictty resulting from the sale of this book. : : pe ge — = — - 7 : bf Sezual Behavior in the Human Male" is the Strat of 9 volumes whtth will be published by Kinsey and his staffe Much critictsam has been leveled at Kinsey during the course of his 9-year conptletion of sex histortes but due to his determination, energy, resourcefulness and ability to overlook : such criticism, he has managed to cwol much of the heat engendered toward his study and Lite) rned_owl a volume of vast interest to the American Peoplesinnrye E | 2-57 AP / E $ Professor Kinsey gnd his stays? omge thought to th technique of the interview. they Beh Et gt the entire nillion= dollar, 30-year project nmtght sta: a on the skill and : untforutty of queationing People and a tng honest answers. Clemenko, in hts article re. éd to above, states that Kinsey ts so careful about the oubdjegpos tntervtewtng people that half of the 12,000 tnterviews thus far obtained were actually conducted by Kinsey, hinself. COPIES DEstRaypn 332 NOV 23 1984.