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COLEMAN, Eliot (b. 1938)
COLEMAN, Eliot (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 1791
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Educator, homesteader, and simple life advocate. Childhood in New Jersey; discovery of the Nearings and the Simple Life; transition to homesteading; memories of Scott and Helen Nearing.
Date of Interview: 10/10/2013
COLEMAN, Jabina (b. 1982)
COLEMAN, Jabina (b. 1982)
Interview ID: OH 2064
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Jabina Coleman is a reproductive psychotherapist and a board-certified lactation consultant. She discusses her work as a social worker, and her work on Black maternal mental health and perinatal mood disorders like postpartum depression. She discusses her businesses, Life House Lactation & Perinatal Services and Breastfeeding Awareness and Empowerment (BAE). The interview also focuses on her work as a co-founder of Postpartum Support International (PSI)’s Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color in 2017. Mention of her co-founders, Desiree Israel and Divya Kumar, and of PSI’s Wendy Davis. Mention of her own postpartum experience with postpartum depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Date of Interview: 03/11/2022
COLLIER, La Petta (b. ca. 1920)
COLLIER, La Petta (b. ca. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 1036
Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1957-91. Segregated rural education in south Texas; housing for African-Americans in Dallas, 1950s; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; Civic League; Hamilton Park School; desegregation; zoning problems; church activities; the “Buy Out.”
Date of Interview: 25/01/1991 to 01/02/1991
COLLIER, William F. (b. 1943)
COLLIER, William F. (b. 1943)
Interview ID: OH 1760
For the Air America Oral History Project. Marine veteran and Air America helicopter pilot. Early love of aviation; the Marine Aviation Cadet program; experiences as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam; living with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; interaction with the local populations in Southeast Asia; interaction with the “Customer;” search and rescue missions; rumors about Air America; thoughts on the Air America movie; living in Thailand; leaving Air America; thoughts on U.S. involvement in Laos; thoughts on own involvement in Laos.
Date of Interview: 17/02/2013
COLLINS, Eiland (b. 1927)
COLLINS, Eiland (b. 1927)
Interview ID: OH 0970
Community leader. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1962-91. Childhood in East Texas; segregated education; Civic League and its activities; property violations; home improvements; his presidency of the Civic League; zoning problems; the “Buy Out”; current neighborhood problems.
Date of Interview: 18/01/1991 to 12/03/1991
COLLINS, Elijah, Jr. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
COLLINS, Elijah, Jr. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1427
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Blue during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Also comments about the Battle of Savo Island, August 9, 1942, and the sinking of the Blue, August 22, 1942.
Date of Interview: 06/12/2001
COLLINS, Harriett Shelton (b. 1940)
COLLINS, Harriett Shelton (b. 1940)
Interview ID: OH 1596
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of education in Cisco’s all-black, one-room Smithville Elementary School that included grades 1-6; bussing to town of Eastland for education through eighth grade; pregnancy and marriage to Bill Collins; decision to move to Arizona, then back to Cisco; work at Boss Glove Factory; earning of GED; decision to enter beauty school, then Cisco Junior College to earn degree as Licensed Vocational Nurse; social life among blacks in Cisco, especially church activities; experiences with racial discrimination; phenomenon of “passing” among blacks in Cisco and elsewhere; experiences at “Negro Achievement Day” at the Texas State Fair in Dallas; children’s experiences in public schools during desegregation.
Date of Interview: 16/09/2006
COLLINS, Mari (b. 1992)
COLLINS, Mari (b. 1992)
Interview ID: OH 2051
Events of the week of the “Texas Blackout” (February 14 - 20, 2021) as experienced by Mari Collins, a resident of a neighborhood in North Fort Worth, Texas, that experienced a power outage for over 60 hours.
Date of Interview: 28/02/2021
COMPERE, Dr. Dolphus E. III (b. 1916)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
COMPERE, Dr. Dolphus E. III (b. 1916)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1716
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. World War II veteran. Childhood in Dallas, Texas, medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas, and internship at the University of Michigan prior to enlistment in the Army Air Corp as a surgeon with the Third Air Commando Group. Experiences in the Philippines providing medicinal care to military personnel and local civilians, and reunion with a medical school classmate who was interred as a POW at Cabanatuan. Post-war medical career in Fort Worth, Texas, and experience returning a war souvenir, a Japanese ceremonial sword, to its ancestral family.
Date of Interview: 09/06/2009
CONNALLY, Jack (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
CONNALLY, Jack (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0271
His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender-destroyer USS Thornton during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/12/1974
CONNOLLY, John (b. 1918)
CONNOLLY, John (b. 1918)
Interview ID: OH 1713
Veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Childhood in Whitney and Amarillo, Texas; family’s difficulties in Great Depression; decision to enroll in the CCC; experiences at CCC camps in Cleburne and Hillsboro, Texas, and Grand Junction, Colorado; baseball teams; lessons learned in the CCC; World War II-era experience in the U.S. Army Air Corps; work as tool and dye manufacturer; Republican Party politics in Dallas County.
Date of Interview: 22/06/2010
COOK, James (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
COOK, James (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0734
His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Rigel during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/11/1987
COOK, Robert (b. ca. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
COOK, Robert (b. ca. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1759
Army veteran (scout with the 99th Infantry Division). His experiences in the European Theater; experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in Stalag 17; post-war life.
Date of Interview: 19/10/2012
COOK, Robert (b. 1934)
COOK, Robert (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 0695
Businessman, community leader. His recollections and activities concerning the desegregation of Hamilton Park school during the 1970s.
Date of Interview: 02/05/1987
COOLEY, Dorothy (b. 1922)
COOLEY, Dorothy (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1019
Her recollections while employed by the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Employment procedures; job assignments; swing shift; wartime rationing; safety procedures; housing; social activities; race relations; relationships among male and female employees; economic effects on Texarkana.
Date of Interview: 21/02/1994
COOPER, Abe C. (b. 1939)
COOPER, Abe C. (b. 1939)
Interview ID: OH 1576
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Memories of childhood and early adulthood in Dallas, Texas; experience of attending all-black schools, including James Madison High School; decision to enroll at North Texas State College in 1958; adjustments required for attending school in integrated setting; experience of boarding with African-American families in the “Shack Town” neighborhood of Denton; comparative experiences with students and faculty in the Schools of Engineering and Education.
Date of Interview: 03/04/2006
COOPER, William E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 41st Bomb Squadron. 315th Bomb Wing. 501st Bomb Group. 20th Air Force.
COOPER, William E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 41st Bomb Squadron. 315th Bomb Wing. 501st Bomb Group. 20th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1311
Business executive. His experiences as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Army Air Forces, December, 1942; pre-flight training, Lancaster, California; primary flight training, Hemet, California; advanced flight training, Pecos, Texas; assignment to B-29s, January, 1945; mechanical weaknesses of the B-29; assignment to the 315th Bomb Wing at Guam, 1945; living conditions on Guam; dropping supplies by parachute to prisoners-of-war, 1945; his descriptions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, from the air after the dropping of the atomic bombs; his disappointment with not being able to fly combat missions; postwar duty as a test pilot on Guam; postwar civilian activities.
Date of Interview: 09/09/1999
COPELAND, Kay C. (b. 1934)
COPELAND, Kay C. (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 0974
Her views and experiences concerning the impact of women on the development of the Republican Party in Texas, 1960-93. Roots of her political conservatism; grassroots voluntarism; her role as precinct chair; Texas Federation of Republican Women; her pro-life stand; GOP and minorities; impact of Congressman Jim Collins in getting women involved in politics.
Date of Interview: 30/08/1993
COREY, Harold (b. 1953)
COREY, Harold (b. 1953)
Interview ID: OH 1527
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His parents’ reaction to the social, political, and cultural changes of the Sixties; his early interest in popular music; activities at Lee Park, Dallas, Texas, during the Sixties; protests against the Vietnam War; conflicts with the “redneck” culture; influence of the Beatles on the music of the Sixties; the influence of the “British Invasion”; his assessment of the Who; decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; meeting the Grand Funk Railroad at the festival; comments about “Wavy Gravy” and the Hog Farm; comments about Janis Joplin; comments about Led Zeppelin; sale and use of drugs; the trip tent; festival security; activities at the campgrounds; comments about Ten Years After; lasting effects of the festival on his life.
Date of Interview: 19/11/2003
CORNEJO, Juan (b. 1930)
CORNEJO, Juan (b. 1930)
Interview ID: OH 0052
Former Mayor of Crystal City, Texas, 1963-66. His experiences and personal views of the municipal elections in Crystal City, Texas, 1963. Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASO); discrimination; charges against Captain A. Y. Allee; his accomplishments as Mayor.
Date of Interview: 21/02/1969
CORY, James (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
CORY, James (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0358
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 21/12/1976
COTTEN, James (b. 1920)
Texas State Legislator. Democrat.
COTTEN, James (b. 1920)
Texas State Legislator. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0002
Attorney. Personal experiences as a Texas legislator, 1954-62.
Date of Interview: 18/08/1964
COTTER, M. J. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
COTTER, M. J. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0568
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1982
COTTINGAME, William (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
COTTINGAME, William (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0445
His experiences while aboard the aircraft tender USS Curtiss during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/09/1978
COUGHLIN, William H. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
COUGHLIN, William H. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0771
His experiences at Sand Island with Battery F, 55th Coast Artillery, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/09/1988
COWDEN, John (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
COWDEN, John (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0848
His experiences while aboard the battleship West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/11/1991
COWDEN, John M. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
COWDEN, John M. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0233
His experiences at Navy Mobile Hospital Number Two during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/11/1991
COX, Cece (b. 1962)
Resource Center Dallas.
COX, Cece (b. 1962)
Resource Center Dallas.Interview ID: OH 1751
Executive Director of Resource Center Dallas and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; college years at Northwestern University; awareness of sexual orientation; coming out to family, friends, and co-workers; supportive reactions of family; decision to move to Dallas, Texas for job; involvement in Dallas LGBT community; thoughts on Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the Sodomy Law); impressions of Don Baker; name change of Dallas Gay Alliance to Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance; impressions of Judge Jerry Buchmeyer and his decision to overturn penal code 21.06; struggle for gay men to receive AIDS treatment at Parkland Memorial Hospital; DGA’s activism in AIDS treatment and care; DGA’s activism in struggle for equal treatment and human rights; changes in Dallas’s LGBT community; family life; Resource Center Dallas’s history and services; attending law school; future plans for Resource Center Dallas; thoughts on the younger generation in the LGBT community.
Date of Interview: 14/03/2012
Interview ID: OH 1721
Executive director of Resource Center Dallas. Childhood in Ohio and Bartlesville, Oklahoma; education at Northwestern University; decision to move to Dallas; career as a photojournalist and studio photographer; “coming-out” narrative; involvement with groups such as Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Dallas Gay Alliance/Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance; decision to enter SMU Law School; relationship with partner and adopted son, and with family members.
Date of Interview: 06/11/2009
COX, Johnny (b. 1948)
COX, Johnny (b. 1948)
Interview ID: OH 1541
Printer. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. Generational conflicts with his parents; guitar lessons as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas; appeal of the Beatles and their music; high school friends and activities; changing clothing styles in the Sixties; enrollment at Texas Tech University, 1969; playing in bands while at Texas Tech; meeting his first wife; his opposition to the Vietnam War; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; drug use at the festival; comments about Janis Joplin’s performance; comments about Canned Heat and B.B. King; his first personal use of LSD; comments about the performance of Led Zeppelin; comments about the performance of Spirit; how LSD put the music in a different perspective for him; comments about crowd behavior at the festival; the “free stage”; B.B. King and Johnny Winter playing on stage together; the Texas International Pop Festival as a turning point in his life.
Date of Interview: 14/02/2004
COX, LeRoy Ellis (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
COX, LeRoy Ellis (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1571
Childhood and early adulthood in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. World War II-era Army Air Corps training in armaments and electronics. Stateside service in 303rd Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force; aviation cadet training; service as a B-25 instructor pilot; DC-3 tow pilot for the glider program.
Date of Interview: 05/02/2004
COX, Mort L. (b. 1914)
COX, Mort L. (b. 1914)
Interview ID: OH 1246
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 741 in Camp Pike (later Camp Robinson) in North Little Rock, Arkansas; company move to Camp F-5 in Crystal Springs, Arkansas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 27/05/1998
COYLE, Strimple C. (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
COYLE, Strimple C. (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1025
His experiences at Ewa Field with VMF-211 (Marine Fighter Squadron 211) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/04/1994
CRANE, Richard A. (b. 1916)
CRANE, Richard A. (b. 1916)
Interview ID: OH 0994
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mesquite, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 819 at Camp NP-2-A in Grand, Canyon, Arizona; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 17/10/1993
CRAVEN, Jake (b. 1915)
Craven’s. Inc.. Denton. Texas.
CRAVEN, Jake (b. 1915)
Craven’s. Inc.. Denton. Texas.Interview ID: OHB 0030
Founder, owner, and operator of Craven’s, Inc., Denton, Texas. Childhood memories; Depression experiences; comments about Craven’s Dairy and early dairy industry in general; employment with Burr Stores; recollections about growth and development of Denton; schooling at Akron University and North Texas State; starting his uniform business in Denton, 1940; business dealings with local firms; growth and development of his business; incorporation, reasons for; comments about competition, malls, shopping centers; importance of independent businessmen to communities; reasons for personal success, growth of company.
Date of Interview: 11/09/1979
CRAWFORD, Douglas R. “Roy” (b. 1929)
U.S. Air Force Veteran.
CRAWFORD, Douglas R. “Roy” (b. 1929)
U.S. Air Force Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1557
His experiences as a radar technician in the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War years. Early family life; decision to join the U.S. Army Air Forces, 1946; training as a bulldozer operator; removal of radioactive debris from Hiroshima, 1946-47; training as a radar operator at Edwards Air Force Base, California; his work as the radar tracker when Major Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 on October 14, 1947; assignment to Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, 1949; assignment to Korea, 1952, as a forward air observer; his role as an airborne radar operator during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis; his various activities with the NASA Space Program; clandestine missions with the CIA and Air America over Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Date of Interview: 25/02/2004
CRAWFORD, Gladys P. (b. 1927)
CRAWFORD, Gladys P. (b. 1927)
Interview ID: OH 1085
College professor. Her experiences during the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56.
Date of Interview: 29/09/1995
CRAWFORD, W. M. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
CRAWFORD, W. M. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0578
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/05/1982
CRAWLEY, Alton O. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Office of Strategic Services.
CRAWLEY, Alton O. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Office of Strategic Services.Interview ID: OH 1383
Electrical engineer. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Prewar civilian jobs in radio/communications work; his selection and training for OSS operations, 1943; assignment to Wudu, China, 1944; coastwatching activities and radio transmissions; various miscellaneous accounts of his tour of duty in China.
Date of Interview: 09/03/1999
CREACY, William W. (b. 1918)
CREACY, William W. (b. 1918)
Interview ID: OH 1018
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Hagansport, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 855 at Camp BR-54-M in Elephant Butte near Tucson, Arizona; Grand Lake, Colorado; and Yuma, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 09/10/1993
CREESE, Kenneth (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
CREESE, Kenneth (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0463
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Detroit during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/12/1978
CREIGHTON, Tom (b. 1927)
Texas Senate. Democrat.
CREIGHTON, Tom (b. 1927)
Texas Senate. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0281
Attorney, member of the Texas Senate from Mineral Wells, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Texas Legislature. Personal views of Lieutenant Governors Ben Ramsey, Preston Smith, Ben Barnes, and Bill Hobby; committee assignments; lobbies and lobbyists; reform of local and uncontested calendar; constitutional revision; public school finance bill; public utilities legislation; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 15/07/1975
CRESSON, Louis (b. 1916)
CRESSON, Louis (b. 1916)
Interview ID: OH 0887
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp 74 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania and Camp 70 in Renovo, Pennsylvania; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 22/02/1993
CREWS, T. G. (b. 1917)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
CREWS, T. G. (b. 1917)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0104
Law enforcement officer. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war embassy duty in Peking, north China; capture in Peking; Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1942; Pusan, Korea, 1945; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 22/01/1972
CRIST, Robert (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
CRIST, Robert (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0896
His experiences at Fort Shafter with the 9th Signal Service Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/05/1993
Interview ID: OH 0901
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp S-102 near Mehoopany, Pennsylvania; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 26/05/1993
CRONE, Michael (b. 1976)
U.S. Marine Corps OIF Veteran.
CRONE, Michael (b. 1976)
U.S. Marine Corps OIF Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1679
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Wichita Falls and Arlington, Tex.; family’s tradition of military service; decision to enlist in U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1995; experiences in boot camp at Camp Pendleton, Cal.; training as diesel mechanic; realization that he would be activated and shift in reservist training following September 11 attacks; call-up and training in N.C. and Cal.; deployment to Kuwait and Al Asad, Iraq; birth of first child while in Iraq; aspects of daily life for American soldiers stationed in Iraq; work as a repair mechanic; return to U.S. and family.
Date of Interview: 12/12/2007
CRONIN, Eugene R. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
CRONIN, Eugene R. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0107
Salesman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war after being shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Downing of bomber and capture; hostility of German civilians; interrogation at Oberusel; Stalag Luft 1, Barth; liberation by Russian troops.
Date of Interview: 01/02/1972
CROOKS, Richard (b. 1920)
CROOKS, Richard (b. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 1506
Aircraft worker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Covington, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a soil conservation camp near Waxahachie, Texas; description of camp; life in camp; post-CCC life.
Date of Interview: 27/07/2003
CROSS, Lloyd C. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
CROSS, Lloyd C. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1170
His experiences while aboard the submarines USS S-45, USS Sunfish, USS Spearfish, and USS Pogy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war duty aboard the battleship USS California and the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes, 1935-39; Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1940; his responsibilities as a fireman; various patrols in the Sea of Japan.
Date of Interview: 09/04/1997
CROSS, Van B. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
CROSS, Van B. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0325
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 14th Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1976
CROUSE, Harlan W. (b. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
CROUSE, Harlan W. (b. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1570
His experiences in combat in Philippines during World War II; presence in Yokohama Harbor during Japanese surrender; and in Tokyo during post-war U. S. occupation of Japan.
Date of Interview: 02/07/2004
CROW, Earl (b. ca. 1900)
CROW, Earl (b. ca. 1900)
Interview ID: OH 0068
Farmer, automobile mechanic. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Sinton, Texas, 1900-20. Agrarian life; President William Howard Taft’s visit to La Quinta Ranch.
Date of Interview: 13/03/1970
CROW, William (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
CROW, William (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0336
His experiences at the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1976
CROZIER, Ted A. (b. 1927)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran.
CROZIER, Ted A. (b. 1927)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1477
His service as an aviation officer for General Olinto Barsanti, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, in Vietnam, 1968-69. Pre-Vietnam reminiscences about Barsanti; his role in facilitating the transition of the 101st Airborne Division to the use of helicopters.
Date of Interview: 08/08/2002
CRUMBLING, Lloyd (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 134th Infantry Division. 35th Infantry Division.
CRUMBLING, Lloyd (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 134th Infantry Division. 35th Infantry Division.Interview ID: OH 1187
Molder. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Infantry training in the U. S., 1943-44; troopship to England, 1944; Battle for Saint Lô, July, 1944; combat in the French hedgerow country; frontal assault on Hill 1221; leg wound from shrapnel and evacuation from combat; recuperation in England and assignment to ordnance repair behind the front lines in France.
Date of Interview: 09/08/1997
CRUMBLING, Warren D. (b. 1916)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 1857th Military Police Detachment.
CRUMBLING, Warren D. (b. 1916)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 1857th Military Police Detachment.Interview ID: OH 1343
Special agent (U. S. Army Criminal Investigation Division), member of the White House Security Detail for President Lyndon B. Johnson. His stateside experiences during World War II and his postwar military and civil service careers. Education and employment before entering the military; decision to join the Army, March 10, 1934; basic training at Fort Slocum, New York, 1934; assignment to the 31st Infantry, Philippine Islands, 1934; assignment to the 38th Infantry, Fort Douglas, Utah, 1937; selection for the Military Police; assignment to Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, with the 2nd Infantry Division, 1939; transfer to the 1857th Military Police Detachment (3rd Army); relations between the military and civilian law enforcement authorities in San Antonio during World War II; his marriage on December 12, 1942; his fourth enlistment and assignment to Kobe, Japan, 1946, with the 62nd Military Police Company; his transfer to the 7th Criminal Investigation Division (CID); schooling at Camp Gordon, Georgia; various stateside assignments, 1950-53; assignment with the 481st CID Detachment, Mannheim, Germany, 1954-56; his retirement from the Army, March 31, 1964; appointment to the White House Security Detail (Secret Service) at President Lyndon B. Johnson's LBJ Ranch, 1964; personal comments about President and Mrs. Johnson; his retirement from the Secret Service, 1984.
Date of Interview: 13/11/1999
CRUMBLING, William H. (b. 1927)
U.S. Army Veteran. Troop A. 25th Mechanized Cavalry.
CRUMBLING, William H. (b. 1927)
U.S. Army Veteran. Troop A. 25th Mechanized Cavalry.Interview ID: OH 1260
Truck driver. His experiences in the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1945-47. Assignment to Regensburg; patrols to outlying villages; relations with former SS troops; comments about black market activities; social life; physical destruction of Nazi symbols and insignia; visit to Dachau; relations between American troops and civilians; visit to Adolph Hitler's hunting lodge in the Black Forest.
Date of Interview: 07/08/1998
CRUMLING, Eugene L. “Lefty” (b. 1922)
CRUMLING, Eugene L. “Lefty” (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1297
Former professional ballplayer, bartender. His experiences as a professional baseball player in the U. S. during World War II. His semi-pro baseball career in the late 1930s and early 1940s; origins of his nickname, “Lefty”; signing of his first professional contract, 1941, and assignment to the Hagerstown (Maryland) club in the Class B Interstate League; life in the minor leagues during wartime; his draft classification as 4-F; sale of his contract to the Allentown (Pennsylvania) Cardinals of the Interstate League, 1943; employment in defense-related work during the off-seasons; promotion to the Class AAA Columbus Redbirds of the American Association, 1944; sale of his contract in 1945 to the AAA Rochester Redwings of the Class AAA International League; promotion to the Saint Louis Cardinals in September, 1945; rookie initiation rites; contrasts between life in the minors and life in the majors; comments about individual Cardinals players; his first game and his first, and only, hit in the majors; his demotion to Rochester, 1946; the remainder of his minor league career, 1946-52; his personal thoughts about the reserve clause, player strikes, modern-day salaries, and expansion.
Date of Interview: 18/05/1999
CUDD, Roy (b. 1925)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
CUDD, Roy (b. 1925)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1172
His experiences aboard the escort carrier USS Bougainville in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Operations off Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa; typhoon off Okinawa, 1945.
Date of Interview: 19/03/1997
CUELLAR, Frank, Sr. (b. 1903)
El Chico Corporation.
CUELLAR, Frank, Sr. (b. 1903)
El Chico Corporation.Interview ID: OHB 0018
Founder and Chairman of the Board, El Chico Corporation. Family background; education problems; work as barber; employment in kitchen of Adolphus Hotel; “Mama” Delilah Cuellar’s Mexican food stand at Kaufman County Fair, 1926; opening of first “Cuellar’s” restaurant, 1928; expansion to other towns; Depression; work on ranch in Mexico; first El Chico restaurant in Dallas, 1940; incorporation, 1949; start of canning operation; frozen food business; sources of supply and quality control; personal ownership of restaurant real estate; philosophy of management at El Chico; legal disputes; federal regulations; merger with Campbell-Taggert; introduction of frozen pizza; business ventures after “retirement”; community and trade association involvements.
Date of Interview: 13/07/1978 to 09/08/1978
CUMMINGS, Ben L. (b. ca. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
CUMMINGS, Ben L. (b. ca. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0350
His experiences at the West Loch ammunition dump during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 01/12/1976
CUNNINGHAM, Bruce
82nd Airborne Division. 1st Platoon A Company 325th Airborne Regiment. US Army. ROTC Instructor. Army veteran. 82nd Airborne Division. 1st Platoon A Company 325th Airborne Regiment.
CUNNINGHAM, Bruce
82nd Airborne Division. 1st Platoon A Company 325th Airborne Regiment. US Army. ROTC Instructor. Army veteran. 82nd Airborne Division. 1st Platoon A Company 325th Airborne Regiment.Interview ID: OH 1944
UNT ROTC Instructor. Video log of military experience. Enlisted in US Army in 1983. Attended Officer Candidate School in 1985; received commission as 2nd Lieutenant; completed Airborne Jumpmaster School, assigned to Italy with 82nd Airborne Division. Work with US Border Patrol. Comparisons to being a US soldier in the 1990s to 2010s. Iraq deployment. Difficulties of being a soldier, teacher, student and father. Photos of 1st Platoon A Company 325th Airborne Regiment; teaching classes.
Date of Interview: 21/03/2013
CUNNINGHAM, Richard (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
CUNNINGHAM, Richard (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0746
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/04/1988
CURRE, Frank, Jr. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Tennessee. USS YMS-102. USS Petrof Bay.
CURRE, Frank, Jr. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Tennessee. USS YMS-102. USS Petrof Bay.Interview ID: OH 1451
His experiences aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to join the Navy, 1941; boot camp and assignment to the Tennessee, August 17, 1941; pre-war shipboard life and training exercises; his detailed description of his activities during the attack on Pearl Harbor; aftermath of the attack; his transfer to the yard minesweeper YMS-102 at Bremerton, Washington, 1942; operations around Midway Island; his transfer to the escort carrier Petrof Bay, February, 1944; Battle of Leyte Gulf, October, 1944; kamikaze attacks; Okinawa Campaign, April, 1945, and continued combat against kamikazes.
Date of Interview: 19/04/2002
CURRY, O. J. (b. 1904)
College of Business Administration. University of North Texas.
CURRY, O. J. (b. 1904)
College of Business Administration. University of North Texas.Interview ID: OHB 0036
Emeritus dean, College of Business Administration, University of North Texas. Family background; teaching and retail work experiences; doctoral work at University of Michigan; employment with National Bureau of Economic Research; experiences on faculty at University of Arkansas; comments on Depression; experiences on faculty at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; work with American Petroleum Institute during World War II; development of College of Business at University of North Texas; postwar enrollment growth; business faculty recruitment; planning of Business Administration Building; philosophies of business education; growth of graduate business program; activities as Dean of College of Business Administration; comments on faculty, staff, and administrative developments; accreditation of business programs; interaction of college with business community; views on Matthews, Kamerick, and Nolen administrations at the University; research, consulting, and organizational activities; business ventures; views on educational process; minorities in business program; business trends; views on improving quality of life; comments on retirement.
Date of Interview: 29/03/1979 to 30/03/1979, 16/05/1979 to 23/05/1979
CURTIS, Raymond E. (b. 1927)
CURTIS, Raymond E. (b. 1927)
Interview ID: OH 1707
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Longtime resident and school administrator of Weatherford, Texas. Family history; birth, childhood, and education in Collin County, Texas; farm life in the Great Depression; World War II service in U.S. Navy; education at UNT under the GI Bill; career as a teacher, administrator, and coach in various public school districts, concluding with Weatherford ISD; marriage to Betty Jo Hallett; integration of Weatherford schools; school-building program; career as CEO of Weatherford Chamber of Commerce.
Date of Interview: 29/04/2010
CUTCHALL, Ildea (b. 1922)
CUTCHALL, Ildea (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1024
Her experiences while employed by the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texarkana, Texas, during World War II and the postwar years. Hiring procedures and job assignments; safety precautions; social activities; swing shifts; race relations; relationships between male and female workers; social and economic effects of the plant on Texarkana.
Date of Interview: 01/04/1994
CZERNER, Alfred (b. 1924)
CZERNER, Alfred (b. 1924)
Interview ID: OH 0852
Businessman, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Youth in Frankfort am Main, Germany; inflation during the Weimar Republic; pre-Nazi discrimination; anti-Semitism during the early Hitler years, 1933-38; emigration to the United States, 1938; induction into the U.S. Army, 1943; experiences during the occupation of Germany; meeting his future wife in Brooklyn; lasting effects of the Holocaust.
Date of Interview: 16/01/1990
CZERNER, Ingeborg Israelski (b. 1926)
CZERNER, Ingeborg Israelski (b. 1926)
Interview ID: OH 0846
Clothing designer, Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Pre-Nazi discrimination in Germany; harassment by the Gestapo; Kristalnacht; evacuation to England as part of “Kinder Transport”; adjustment to life in England; emigration to the United States, 1947; meeting her future husband; career as a fashion designer; lasting effects of the Holocaust experience.
Date of Interview: 04/01/1990
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