Tape 1. In the first interview session, conducted on July 9, 2012, Stuckenschneider discusses his family background and early life in on a farm in Missouri, and later in St. Louis. He describes the houses his family lived in, shares his reasons for dropping out of high school, and describes jobs he worked as a minor. He then speaks about his job as a sheet metal cutter at Hussmann Corporation in St. Louis, about his involvement in Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 93, and about his experience in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.