Oral History

Eugene Hines - Sharing more about A.D. Clark Pool (clip)

Interviewed on August 29, 2025

Eugene Hines: Just very briefly, one other person that I would like for you to remember was the lifeguard who worked with me in the pool. And he is a physician now in Durham, Dr. Wilson, but he was my co-lifeguard at the time, Dr. Ken Wilson. He’s not been able to join us, although he and his wife live here in Chapel Hill now, but maybe next year we can get him out here and he can share some stories. But we were the first integrated life guard team for this pool. So that was an accomplishment way back in 1964, that we had here in Chapel Hill. And he, I like to describe him as the first Bill Clinton, he had soul. [Laughter]

Eugene Hines - Sharing more about A.D. Clark Pool (clip)

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Oral history interview of Hines, Eugene on August 29, 2025 at A.D. Clark Pool, Hargraves Center, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Eugene Hines - Sharing more about A.D. Clark Pool (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed September 13, 2026, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/eugene-hines-sharing-more-about-ad-clark-pool-clip.

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