Interview ID: OHB 0077
Owner and operator, Griffith’s Independent Ginner, Weinert, Texas. Family background; education in Texola, Oklahoma; part-time employment as cotton picker; involvement in building cotton gins and operating drug stores, West Texas, 1920s; operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, Weinert, Texas, 1927; comments on buying cotton and retaining cotton seed; variations in cotton prices; comments on Depression in Weinert; sale of coal to farmers; buying grain for Kimball Milling Company during off-season; description of dry land farming; reasons for decrease of cotton gins; use for cotton burrs and seed hulls; sale of cotton gin business, 1946; operation of gins in Sherman, Texas and grain department in Woodward, Oklahoma for Kimball Milling Company; comments on Weinert cotton gin personnel; significant changes in cotton ginning business during thirty years; explanation of ginning procedure; civic and trade association activities.
Date of Interview: 04/11/1982
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Interview ID: OH 1176
Business executive. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Tirante in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; his training as an electrician’s mate; qualification examination; assignment to the Tirante, 1945; various patrols around the Japanese home islands.
Date of Interview: 09/05/1996
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Interview ID: OH 1701
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Family history; Parker County farming history; childhood and education in Weatherford; Depression-era struggles; enlistment in U.S. Navy; World War II service; studies at Weatherford College, Duke University, and Duke Law; legal career with FBI, in private practice in Weatherford, and as Parker County District Attorney; career as land developer; political career on Weatherford City Council and Weatherford College Board of Regents; involvement in state party politics; integration of Weatherford schools.
Date of Interview: 16/03/2010
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Interview ID: OH 0183
Civil servant. His experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/04/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0177
His experiences while employed by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 06/04/1974
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Interview ID: OH 1663
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Cold War-era Air Force veteran. Childhood in El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona; memories of Great Depression and World War II; father’s service in World War I; decision to attend University of Arizona and enter the U.S. Air Force ROTC program; assignment to Lackland AFB; training in navigation and aircraft performance engineering for B-36 and KB-29 air refueling aircraft crews; retraining in electronic countermeasures; assignment to B-52 wing at Castle AFB, California; airborne alert missions; tensions of Cuban Missile Crisis; air-sampling missions; assignment to U.S. Air University and thesis on subject of the so-called “missile gap”; assignment to an SR-71 reconnaissance unit; deployment to Kadena Air Base during Vietnam War; belief that U.S. policy in Cold War succeeded in preventing other wars; retirement to Fort Worth.
Date of Interview: 18/10/2007
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Interview ID: OH 1795
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Simple life advocate. Childhood in New Jersey; family losses; discovery of the Nearings and the simple life; memories of Scott and Helen Nearing; the Good Life Center.
Date of Interview: 14/07/2014
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Interview ID: OH 0908
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in West Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Lubbock, Texas; transfer to Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1993
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Interview ID: OH 0116
Governor of Guam, 1963-72. His experiences as secretary of Guam during the governorship of Bill Daniel; economic and educational development of Guam; congressional bill for the establishment of an elective governorship for Guam.
Date of Interview: 11/09/1968
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Interview ID: OH 0471
Her experiences at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/12/1978
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Interview ID: OH 0133
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; coal mining at Histashi, Honshu, 1944; copper mining at Ashio; Niigata, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 20/06/1972
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Interview ID: OH 0758
His experiences while aboard the hydrographic vessel USS Sumner during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/02/1989
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Interview ID: OH 0737
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Decision to join the Fellowship; conditions in the African-American section of Denton; early Fellowship meetings; desegregation of public facilities; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; Fred Moore Day School; desegregation of public schools; evolving nature of the Fellowship in the 1970s; Denton Christian Preschool; lasting friendships; defeat of urban renewal referendums; thoughts on lasting contributions of the Fellowship.
Date of Interview: 11/05/1988
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Interview ID: OH 1902
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; Fort Smith black community and interracial relations; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; educational and professional background; civil rights groups; contemporary race relations.
Date of Interview: 01/03/2017
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Interview ID: OH 1087
Laborer. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 818 in the Grand Canyon, Arizona; transfer to Company 807; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 05/10/1995
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Interview ID: OH 0639
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with Headquarters Company, 65th Engineers, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/05/1984
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Interview ID: OH 1722
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, owner of Javier’s Gourmet Mexicano, a restaurant in Dallas. Childhood in Mexico City; how Mexico City has changed since he lived there; why his family decided to come to the U.S. and Dallas; his experiences adapting to American culture; goals in life; starting a business in Dallas; goals for the restaurant; the importance of Mexican culture; his aunt’s kidnapping in Mexico City; views on the illegal immigration debate; views on recent immigration to the D/FW area; opinion of Arizona law S.B. 1070.
Date of Interview: 18/03/2011
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Interview ID: OH 0905
Her experiences and thoughts concerning the development of the Republican Party in Texas. Activities in state and local Republican election campaigns; Religious Right; abortion; Eagle Forum; National Organization of Women.
Date of Interview: 12/04/1993
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