Oscar Richard, Alumnus

Oscar Richard

Born in 1921 in Baton Rouge, Oscar G. Richard III attended LSU in the late 1930s. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was held as a prisoner of war in Germany after being shot down. He returned to Baton Rouge after the war where he became head of the LSU Office of Public Relations. During his tenure he directed the operations of the Rural Life Museum and the LSU Museum of Art. Richard was a member of LSU’s Ole War Skule Hall of Honor and the Manship School’s Hall of Fame.

Richard retired from LSU in 1984 and died in 2013 at age 91.

Richard’s interview is housed in the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU Libraries Special Collections. Richard, Oscar, interview by Everett Besch and Quinn Coco, audio recording, 1993, 4700.0359. Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.