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Video Interview split into 15 segments as follows:

1. What were the Goodwill Games?
2. What was it like to be asked to be involved?
3. What was it like in Moscow?
4. What was it like meeting with the dignitaries?
5. Did you see any other…

The city where the travelers went to before Tashkent

Photograph of Jim Talbot.

Interview Mark Dudley did with the Washington State History Museum.

Nancy Homes discusses early visits from Soviets, their initial impact on tours in Washington, and the agreements they made to ensure the delegations would take turns visiting each year.

A newspaper article outlining some visiting teachers' experiences from the Soviet Educators for Peace organization in partnership with Accent on Understanding

Nancy Homes discusses the impact of personal connections on individual perspectives, and the importance of Accent's goal of bringing delegations from Washington to the Soviet Union and from the Soviet Union to Washington.

It was difficult for entire families, let alone individuals to leave the USSR

Although the Soviet Union signed a declaration that essentially allowed people to travel outside of the Soviet Union, there were still restrictions