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HOUSEMAN, Donelson M. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. D Company. 1st Battalion. 423rd Infantry Regiment. 106th Infantry Division.
HOUSEMAN, Donelson M. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. D Company. 1st Battalion. 423rd Infantry Regiment. 106th Infantry Division.Interview ID: OH 1479
Insurance executive, real estate investor. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Pre-war education and college at the University of Texas; his reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; his decision to enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps; processing at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, April, 1943; basic training, Camp Callan, San Diego, May-June, 1943; Office Candidate School, Camp Davis, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1943-44; his engagement to Kathryn Buckley, January, 1944; assignment to an antiaircraft battalion, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1944; infantry officer refresher course, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1944; assignment to the 106th Infantry Division, Camp Atterbury, Indiana, August, 1944; training as a mortar platoon leader; shipment to England, October, 1944; relief of the 2nd Infantry Division in the Ardennes, December 8, 1944; the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944; his description of the winter weather and the battle; his severe wrist wound; capture by German troops, December 19, 1944; Stalag VI-G, Cologne, Germany, 1944-45; his time in the prison infirmary; prison camp living conditions; his deteriorating medical condition; transfer to a German military hospital at Montabaur for the possible amputation of his arm; treatment of his wound with sulfa; liberation, April, 1945; further treatment for his wound at McCluskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas; his marriage on June 9, 1945; his return to the University of Texas and postwar business career.
Date of Interview: 20/11/2002
HOUSENFLUCK, Thomas (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HOUSENFLUCK, Thomas (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0751
His experiences while aboard the submarine Narwhal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 23/04/1988
HOUSER, Oscar (b. 1941)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.
HOUSER, Oscar (b. 1941)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 0922
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1972-73. Decision to enter nurse training, the military; anesthesia school at William Beaumont Medical Center, 1972; attitudes toward Vietnam War; assignment to 95th Evacuation Hospital, China Beach, Vietnam; camp living conditions; work at Da Nang and Pleiku; treatment of battle casualties; work with Montagnards; work with Vietnamese medical personnel; social life and recreational activities; morale and drug problems; personal relationships among camp personnel; communications with home; decision to stay in military; effect on Vietnam experience on his later life.
Date of Interview: 23/02/1992
HOWARD, E. F. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
HOWARD, E. F. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0768
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 19th Infantry during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/04/1989
HUBBARD, Ernest (b. 1920)
HUBBARD, Ernest (b. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 1234
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Alabama; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 4447 in Auburn, Alabama; transfer to Camp Alabama (SCS-14) in Dothan, Alabama; temporary assignment in Andalusia, Alabama; transfer to Tennille, Georgia; reassignment to Keystone Heights, Florida; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 05/03/1998
HUBENAK, John (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HUBENAK, John (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0342
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with Fleet Air Wing Two during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 03/11/1976
HUDGINS, H. Paul (b. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Vetearn.
HUDGINS, H. Paul (b. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Vetearn.Interview ID: OH 1842
Artist and author. Childhood in Texas; family history; enlistment in U.S. Army as a medic; staged in France on V-E Day; stationed on hospital train running between Germany and France; post-war college; artistic career; writing career; Honor Flight trip.
Date of Interview: 23/11/2014
HUDGINS, H. T. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HUDGINS, H. T. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0642
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Bagley during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/05/1984
HUDSON, Chester E. (b. 1916)
HUDSON, Chester E. (b. 1916)
Interview ID: OH 1011
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 4747 at Calico Rock, Arkansas; move to Camp Crowley’s Ridge (SP-4) in Walcott, Arkansas; move to Company 1708 in Ozone, Arkansas; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 12/10/1993
HUDSON, James (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 3rd Platoon. 36th/83rd Quartermaster Trucking Company. 470th Quartermaster Regiment.
HUDSON, James (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 3rd Platoon. 36th/83rd Quartermaster Trucking Company. 470th Quartermaster Regiment.Interview ID: OH 1414
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in segregated Yalobusha County, Mississippi; his reaction to being drafted, December, 1942; basic training, Camp McCain, Grenada, Mississippi, 1942-43; segregated training facilities; maneuvers at Camp Polk, Louisiana, 1943; training in truck maintenance and operation; relations between white officers and black enlisted men; entertainment on and off base for black soldiers; illiteracy among black troops; voyage to Europe, February, 1944; pre-invasion training around Cardigan, Wales; transfer of the unit to Swansea for further pre-invasion training; his observations of the Normandy landings, June 6, 1944; the landing of his unit on June 7 at Omaha Beach; establishment of beach supply depots; his participation in the activities of the “Red Ball Express,” August-September, 1944; his description of war damage in German towns and cities; postwar adjustments to segregated society in Mississippi.
Date of Interview: 30/05/2001
HUDSON, Lloyd (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Troop A. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.
HUDSON, Lloyd (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Troop A. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: Oh 1514
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the 124th Cavalry, 1940, at age sixteen; federalization of the National Guard, November, 1940; Louisiana Maneuvers, Summer, 1941; assignment to Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, 1941; transfer to the 112th Cavalry, 1942; maneuvers at Hueco Springs, Texas, 1942; assignment to New Caledonia, 1942-43; contracting dengue fever; occupation of Woodlark Island, 1943; amphibious training on Goodenough Island, 1943; his wounds received during the amphibious landing on Arawe Island, December 15, 1943; evacuation to Townsville, Australia; comments about A Troop’s camaraderie; evacuation to the States, 1944.
Date of Interview: 12/08/2003
HUDSPETH, C. E. (b. ca. 1930)
HUDSPETH, C. E. (b. ca. 1930)
Interview ID: OH 1446
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Cotton gin foreman. His comments and observations about changing patterns of cotton production and cotton gin operations in Denton County, Texas, 1960-1987. Processes for separating trash, lint, and seeds; changing technology for ginning operations; the Massey gin’s role in marketing cotton; fluctuations in cotton demand and prices; a tour of the Pilot Point cotton gin and the complete ginning process; maintenance of gin machinery; the cottonseed oil market; cleaning and drying cotton.
Date of Interview: 22/08/1987
HUDSPETH, C. M. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HUDSPETH, C. M. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0989
His experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea, New Caledonia; intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages; ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s plane, 1943.
Date of Interview: 03/05/1993
HUEY YOU, Virginia (b. *)
HUEY YOU, Virginia (b. *)
Interview ID: OH 1583
African-American alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas, and education in all-black public schools, including I.M. Terrell Senior High School; decision to enroll on scholarship at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, in Fall 1961; inability to continue at Paine and decision to enroll at NTSU in Fall 1962; experience boarding with Mrs. Moore in all-black “Shack Town” neighborhood of Denton and later in Oak Street Dormitory Hall; social life among African-American students; perceptions of indifference, if not hostility, on part of NTSU administrators and professors toward African-American students; perception that acceptance of black athletes helped break down barriers of segregation on campus; perception of how race relations on campus improved rapidly in decades of 1960s and 1970s; warm feelings toward Denton African-American community; graduation from NTSU with B.A. in history, 1965, and M.S. in Gerontology, 1977.
Date of Interview: 02/05/2006
HUFF, C. B. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
HUFF, C. B. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0561
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with Headquarters Battery, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/05/1982
HUFF, Cheryl (b. 1959)
HUFF, Cheryl (b. 1959)
Interview ID: OH 1408
Educator. Her recollections concerning her association with Drs. Margaret Griffin and Rose Spicola, long-time professors of reading at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Their rapport with students; their role in the establishment of the Reading Recovery Program; their contributions to reading instruction.
Date of Interview: 05/10/2000
HUFFMAN, James W. (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HUFFMAN, James W. (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0818
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai, Thailand, 1944-45; successful escape and rescue by OSS operatives.
Date of Interview: 11/04/1990
HUGHES, Herbert H. (b. 1917)
HUGHES, Herbert H. (b. 1917)
Interview ID: OH 0813
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Lancaster, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2852 at SCS-1580 near Tucson, Arizona; reassignment to Company 3810 in Dublin, Texas; company move to Monument, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 11/10/1990
HUGHES, Robert C. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HUGHES, Robert C. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0456
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/08/1978
HUGHES, Sarah T. (b. 1896)
Texas House of Representatives; District Judge. Democrat.
HUGHES, Sarah T. (b. 1896)
Texas House of Representatives; District Judge. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0027
Former state legislator, state district judge, federal district judge. Her experiences and views as a member of the Texas House of Representatives; appointment as state district judge by Governor James Allred; unsuccessful congressional campaign, 1956; nomination for the Vice-Presidency, 1952; Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign, 1956; women’s activities; Kennedy-Johnson campaign, 1960; appointment as federal district judge, 1961; Kennedy assassination.
Date of Interview: 15/01/1969 to 07/02/1969, 28/02/1969 to 21/03/1969, 11/04/1969 to 16/05/1969, 27/05/2969
Interview ID: OH 0489
Her experiences and personal views concerning the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, the Dallas County Jail, the constitutionality of abortion, and the desegregation of the Dallas Independent School District.
Date of Interview: 23/08/1979
HUGHES, W. W. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 3rd Platoon. A Troop. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.
HUGHES, W. W. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 3rd Platoon. A Troop. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1554
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His boyhood in Dallas, Texas, during the Great Depression; his decision to join the Texas National Guard, in 1940; caring for the troop’s horses at Fort Bliss and Fort Clark, Texas; Louisiana Maneuvers, 1941; assignment to New Caledonia, 1942; invasion of Arawe, New Britain, December, 1943; combat on Arawe; Battle of the Driniumor River, New Guinea, June, 1944; the Philippines Campaign, 1944-45; his return to the States and separation from the military.
Date of Interview: 17/11/2003
HUGHES, William E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HUGHES, William E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0616
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 28/10/1983
HUNT, AL J. (b. 1911)
HUNT, AL J. (b. 1911)
Interview ID: OH 0881
Truck driver. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1806 at Turner Falls, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 24/02/1993
HUNT, Edwin C. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HUNT, Edwin C. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1102
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 19/10/1995
HUNT, Ray (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
HUNT, Ray (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1074
His experiences as a guerrilla fighter in the Philippines during World War II. His escape during the Bataan Death March; guerrilla operations before and after the American landings on Leyte and Luzon, 1944.
Date of Interview: 19/03/1995
HURD, Michael (b. 1949)
HURD, Michael (b. 1949)
Interview ID: OH 1793
African American Historian and Sportswriter. Childhood in Texarkana and Houston; enlistment in the U.S. Air Force; journalism career; growth of African American history; Juneteenth; African American history in Texas.
Date of Interview: 28/05/2013
HUSTON, Susan (b. 1950)
HUSTON, Susan (b. 1950)
Interview ID: OH 2038
Susan Huston speaks about her fifty-year career serving as a model, stylist, runway producer, and workshop creator. Early on, Huston participated in pageants and later attended Bauder Fashion College in Arlington, Texas. Her career expanded to include many facets of the fashion industry, notable starting a “charm school” program at Leonard’s Department Store (later Dillard’s), serving as a model at various events and formally through the Kim Dawson Agency, and serving as an editor for several fashion magazines. Notably, Huston worked as a “larger size” model for runway, editorial, and catalogue modeling and reshaped her etiquette trainings to address changing social and cultural issues facing young people and professionals.
Date of Interview: 02/11/2020
HUTCHEN, Eugene (b. 1927)
HUTCHEN, Eugene (b. 1927)
Interview ID: OH 1406
Businessman. Experiences of the Hutchen family after its move from Mississippi to Gary, Indiana, 1930-1950.
Date of Interview: 09/10/2000
HUTCHENS, Ted (b. 1953)
HUTCHENS, Ted (b. 1953)
Interview ID: OH 1533
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. Conflicts with his parents about the counterculture of the 1960s; his youth in Springfield, Missouri; his high school experiences and friends; his attractions to the counterculture; influence of the Beatles and the “British Invasion” on the music of the Sixties; running away from home ten times; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; activities occurring at the “free stage;” use of drugs and his ‘bad trip’ at the festival; activities of the Hog Farm; skinny-dipping in Lake Dallas; “Wavy Gravy”; his experiences with James (“Herman”) Eckstein after the festival; on the road from Texas to Colorado to California; finding a “crash pad” in San Francisco; his arrest for vagrancy in San Francisco and his return to Springfield, October, 1969; his release from a hospital psychiatric ward and running away to Phoenix; attendance at the Altamont Pop Festival near San Francisco, December 6, 1969; his return to the San Francisco street life; attending concerts at the Fillmore West; his return to Springfield with his brother after being robbed at gunpoint in the summer of 1970; taking and selling drugs in Springfield; contracting Hepatitis C from using needles; his leaving the drug scene and obtaining his high school diploma; his abuse of alcohol and turning to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Date of Interview: 28/11/2003
HUYNH, Thanh Kim (b. 1953)
HUYNH, Thanh Kim (b. 1953)
Interview ID: OH 1827
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Vietnamese-born immigrant to Carrollton, Texas. Childhood in Vietnam; memories of Vietnam War; experiences as a helicopter pilot for the South Vietnamese Army; evacuation to Guam; transfer to the U.S.; life in America; culture shock; settlement in Dallas-Fort Worth area; immigration process as a refugee; considering America “home;” Dallas Vietnamese community.
Date of Interview: 08/12/2012
HYDER, T. Bullock (b. 1907)
Texas Legislature. Democrat.
HYDER, T. Bullock (b. 1907)
Texas Legislature. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0079
College professor, former member of the Texas Legislature, from Denton, Democrat. Reminiscences from his tenure in the Texas House of Representatives, 1932-38. Assistant reading clerk; first legislative race, 1932; comments on former Governors Ross Sterling, James and Miriam Ferguson, James Allred, W. Lee O’Daniel, Coke Stevenson, Beauford Jester; Coke Stevenson as Speaker of the House; races for the House speakership; his race for the speakership, 1936; Depression politics; comments on various state legislators; liquor issue; pari-mutuel betting; education legislation; gas and oil legislation; lobbying; Democratic National Conventions of 1936 and 1940.
Date of Interview: 12/05/1966
IDAR, Ed (b. 1920)
IDAR, Ed (b. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 0039
Attorney. His experiences as a leader in the American GI Forum, Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations (PASO), and other Mexican-American social action groups. Back-to-school drives; undocumented workers problem; bracero problem; school segregation; jury service; poll tax drives; LULAC; Viva Kennedy movement; gubernatorial election, 1962; Crystal City incident, 1963.
Date of Interview: 20/02/1969
IKEMIYA, Masanobu (b. 1946) & Tomoko (b. 1956)
IKEMIYA, Masanobu (b. 1946) & Tomoko (b. 1956)
Interview ID: OH 1936
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Childhood memories growing up in China and Japan. Masanobu’s music career. Tomoko’s early work as a midwife. Spiritual life and practices. Their married life together in simple living community.
Date of Interview: 07/08/2015
IMBER, Nat (b. 1911)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
IMBER, Nat (b. 1911)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1660
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in New York, New York; education at New York University; work with Works Progress Administration-funded physical education programs; career in New York public schools; enlistment in U.S. Navy following Pearl Harbor; experience in the service as a Jew; assignment as physical training instructor to bases in Virginia, California, and Maryland; marriage to Dorothy; move to wife’s hometown of Fort Worth, then to New York City, and again to Fort Worth; career in sales, culminating in ownership of several clothing and liquor stores.
Date of Interview: 11/10/2007
INDMAN, Pec (b. 1954)
INDMAN, Pec (b. 1954)
Interview ID: OH 2067
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Pec Indman is a retired psychotherapist with a focus on maternal mental health and postpartum depression. She discusses her training in psychology and therapy, and her entry to the field of perinatal mental health. Indman discusses her work with Postpartum Support International (PSI), especially her development of PSI training in the 1990s and later work developing certification (PMH-C) through Pearson Vue. Mentions other postpartum advocates/PSI members including Shoshana Bennett, Jane Honikman, Birdie Gunyon Meyer, Wendy Davis.
Date of Interview: 06/01/2023
INGMAN, Stan (b. 1939)
UNT College of Health and Public Service.
INGMAN, Stan (b. 1939)
UNT College of Health and Public Service.Interview ID: OH 1992 Ingman, Stan
Growing up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia where the economy was based on industrial chemical production and coal mining, Stan Ingman experienced environmental degradation first-hand. An affinity for the outdoors and a concern for public health resulted in degrees in botany, rural communities and medical sociology. The “engaged university” offered a forum for multidisciplinary projects and research-based results.
He arrived at UNT in 1990, and worked with Dr. Hiram Friedsam to create programs for the Center for Public Service. Sustainability was the basis for their conceptual model as expressed by The “Four E’s” – Enterprise, Environment, Education and Empowerment. Their vision emphasized both the physical and social environment, finding connections between the aging population and the aging planet. Education and empowerment strategies would provide the tools for public health and economic well-being.
During his thirty years at UNT, Stan has practiced his brand of “the engaged university” at the local, regional, national and international levels. Using his social science lens, he continues to identify relationships between human behavior and sustainable outcomes. Collaborative efforts include affordable housing, healthy neighborhoods, after-school programs, sustainable campus initiatives and green building technologies. Stan sees great potential in social media communication, data mapping and the citizen science model. He encourages his graduate students to “value networks” by combining multidisciplinary technical expertise with established grassroots groups in order to achieve lasting social change.
Date of Interview: 14/03/2019
INGRAM, Jack W. (b. 1921)
INGRAM, Jack W. (b. 1921)
Interview ID: OH 1106
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 20/10/1995
IRELAND, Nelda (b. 1934)
Braniff International Airways.
IRELAND, Nelda (b. 1934)
Braniff International Airways.Interview ID: OH 1957
Ireland, Nelda: Reservations, Customer Service Agent. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact on the DFW area and the airline industry as a whole with the “End of the Plain Plane” campaign brought in by Harding Lawrence. Discussions on being a part of the Braniff family and Braniff’s rise to the top of preferred airlines to its bankruptcy on May 12, 1982.
Date of Interview: 18/01/2014
IRELAND, Tennie (b. 1922)
IRELAND, Tennie (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1613
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former textile mill worker. Experiences Experiences growing up in McKinney; work career at Texas Textile Mill beginning at age thirteen; her experiences and other family members’ experiences at mill; experience in “mill block” housing; union organizing; memories of 1948 tornado that destroyed the McKinney mill and many other buildings in town; work career at Texas Instruments; opinions regarding practice of women’s unequal pay as compared to men’s for equal work at mill.
Date of Interview: 14/11/2006
IRICK, Clifton (b. 1919)
IRICK, Clifton (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OHB 0045
Realtor, owner and operator, Clifton Irick Real Estate, Pilot Point, Texas. Family background; description of Pilot Point, 1930s; work in dry goods store and as insurance salesman; purchase of White Auto Store franchise; purchase of Pilot Point National Bank, 1983; race relations in Pilot Point; experiences in retailing business; history of Pilot Point banking; comments on bank directors; expansion of bank; views on government regulations of banking; comments on bank personnel; sale of bank and entry into full-time real estate work, 1975; advantages of Pilot Point’s location; development of homeowner property and horse farm property; comments on land prices in Pilot Point area; cotton ginning in Pilot Point; views on financing loans; advertising sources; civic activities; vignettes of Pilot Point history.
Date of Interview: 08/03/1980 to 12/04/1980
Interview ID: OH 1445
His random reminiscences about life in Pilot Point, Texas, 1920-1987. Effects of the Great Depression on his family and Pilot Point; description of businesses in downtown Pilot Point; gardening, butchering, and food preservation; race relations; local entertainment; civic organizations; identification of long-time families in the area; discovery of oil and its effects on the local economy in the 1930s.
Date of Interview: 02/09/1987
ISAACS, Kenneth (b. 1915) and Eliza (b. 1909)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
ISAACS, Kenneth (b. 1915) and Eliza (b. 1909)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0248
Navy veteran and his wife. His experiences while living in Honolulu and reporting aboard the repair ship USS Dobbin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; her experiences while living in Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 24/08/1974
ISACKSEN, R. N. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
ISACKSEN, R. N. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0476
His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender USS Tangier during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 09/05/1979
ISLAM, Amirah (b. 1988)
ISLAM, Amirah (b. 1988)
Interview ID: OH 2007
Food blogger, photographer, and stylist. Discussion on her family’s immigrant history from Bangladesh to Scotland to Texas; her cultural and national identity; her work with food; experiences with food-shaming; and the act of de-colonizing food and recipes.
Date of Interview: 27/02/2021
ITES, Frank (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
ITES, Frank (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0610
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 21/10/1983
IVEY FAMILY. Olgie Ivey (b. *), Mary Louise Ivey Bardas (b. *), and Ben Ivey, Jr. (b. 1935)
IVEY FAMILY. Olgie Ivey (b. *), Mary Louise Ivey Bardas (b. *), and Ben Ivey, Jr. (b. 1935)
Interview ID: OHB 0039
IVEY, Olgie and Mary Louise Ivey Bardas. Family business of Ben C. Ivey, Sr. in Denton, Texas. Family background; Ben Ivey’s education; ownership of automobile dealerships and Sinclair distributorship in 1930s and 1940s; civic activities.
IVEY, Ben C., Jr. President, Ben C. Ivey Oil Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; Ben Ivey’s education; ownership of automobile dealerships and Sinclair distributorship in 1930s and 1940s; civic activities.
IVEY, Ben C., Jr. President, Ben C. Ivey oil Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; father’s automobile and oil business; creation of Ben C. Ivey Oil Company, 1959; growth of business; background of Sinclair Oil Company; sale of gasoline and automotive products; gasoline price fluctuations; purchase and delivery of oil products to markets; personnel; financing of business; government regulations; future of oil jobbing; volunteer activities with Denton State School; cab and limousine business; civic activities.
Date of Interview: 17/10/1979 to 14/11/1979, 28/11/1979
JACK, Kathy (b. 1957)
JACK, Kathy (b. 1957)
Interview ID: OH 1731
Proprietor of Jack’s Backyard, a Dallas bar and restaurant. Childhood and education in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dallas; “coming-out” narrative; social life in Dallas’s gay and lesbian bars; effects of AIDS epidemic on Dallas gay community; career as employee, manager, and eventually owner of various bars; involvement in and support of various Gay Pride events; thoughts about future of gay rights movement.
Date of Interview: 26/10/2009
JACKSON, J. T. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JACKSON, J. T. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0799
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Raleigh during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 28/04/1990
JACKSON, James L. (b. 1920)
JACKSON, James L. (b. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 0938
Attorney. His experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, during the 1930s. Comments about his teachers; athletics; influence of Coach Tennyson Miller; segregation in Denton.
Date of Interview: 03/09/1993
JACKSON, Lee (b. 1950)
Texas House of Representatives. Republican.
JACKSON, Lee (b. 1950)
Texas House of Representatives. Republican.Interview ID: OH 0488
Businessman, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Republican. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Biographical information; personal political philosophy; early experience in politics; first legislative campaign, 1976; Sixty-fifth Legislative Session; comments about Speaker Bill Clayton; comments about Governor William Clements; appropriations; tax reduction; Peveto Bill; public school financing; consumer protection legislation; comments about “Killer Bees.”
Date of Interview: 30/07/1979
Interview ID: OH 0617
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-eighth Legislature. Comments about the Speaker of the House Gib Lewis; committee assignments; rule changes; comments about Governor Mark White; tax bills; appropriations; pay raises for teachers; Public Utilities Commission.
Date of Interview: 18/11/1993
JACKSON, Mitchell (b. 1922)
JACKSON, Mitchell (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 0943
His experiences as a student at Frederick Douglass Colored School in Denton, Texas, 1928-40. Family background; comments about teachers; athletic activities and influence of Coach Tennyson Miller; school curriculum.
Date of Interview: 17/07/1993
JACKSON, Robert H. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JACKSON, Robert H. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1195
Attorney. His experiences as a Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Flight training; assignment to carrier USS Bunker Hill as a member of Fighting 17 (Air Group 17); personal assessment of the performance of the F4U Corsair; stationed to airstrip on Ondongo (near Munda) , 1943; strafing missions over Bougainville, 1943-44; raids over Rabaul, 1944; aerial combat against the Japanese Zero; transfer to the carrier USS Intrepid as part of Fighter-Bomber 10, 1945; ground-support missions during the Okinawan Campaign; kamikazes; sinking of the battleship Yamato, 1945; kamikaze hits on Intrepid.
Date of Interview: 24/07/1997
JACKSON, Velma (b. 1929)
JACKSON, Velma (b. 1929)
Interview ID: OH 0862
Clerk. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Youth in East Texas; employment in Dallas; African-American housing problems; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home maintenance and improvements; transportation problems; social organizations; Hamilton Park School; church activities; Interorganizational Council and other political activities; zoning problems; Civic League; desegregation of schools; closing of the junior high and high school; Pacesetter; the “Buy Out.”
Date of Interview: 18/10/1990 to 15/11/1990
JACOBS, Mike (b. 1925)
JACOBS, Mike (b. 1925)
Interview ID: OH 0831
Businessman, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Youth in Konin, Poland; pre-Nazi anti-Semitism; internment in Jewish Ghetto in Ostrowiec, Poland, 1939-42; Polish Partisans; gun-running activities; sabotage activities; Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, 1944; black market activities; liberation.
Date of Interview: 26/11/1989
JAEGER, Edward P (b. 1942)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Medical Corps..
JAEGER, Edward P (b. 1942)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Medical Corps..Interview ID: OH 1165
Insurance executive, businessman, Army veteran (17th Field Hospital and 67th Evacuation Hospital). His letters written to his wife from An Khe and Qhi Nhon, Republic of Vietnam, during 1968-69.
Date of Interview: 01/01/1968 to 31/12/1969
Interview ID: OH 1238
His experiences during the Vietnam War as a medical supply officer with the 17th Field Hospital (An Khe) and the 67th Evacuation Hospital (Qui Nhon), 1968-69, as related in tape-recorded letters to his wife, Elizabeth Pierce Jaeger. Plans for having children; future personal financial planning; racial tensions and Black Power activities; shopping for civilian consumer goods; renovation of the Officer's Club; physicians’ negative attitudes about serving in Vietnam; procurement of medical supplies; holiday celebrations; planning for a post-Vietnam cross- country vacation in the U S and Canada; personnel problems; comments about various senior officers; procurement of captured enemy equipment for use as trading items and gifts; comments about the Paris peace negotiations for ending the war; planning for a leave in Hawaii with his wife and parents; personnel morale problems; discipline problems among enlisted personnel; preparation for leaving Vietnam and the Army; comments about student unrest and anti-war demonstrations in the US.
Date of Interview: 01/01/1968 to 31/12/1969
Interview ID: OH 1239
His experiences during the Vietnam War as a medical supply officer with the 17th Field Hospital (An Khe) and the 67th Evacuation Hospital (Qui Nhon), 1968-69, as related in tape-recorded letters to his parents, Edward F and Alice P Jaeger. Chronicle of his departure for Vietnam; description of Vietnamese village life and culture; assignment to the 17th Field Hospital at An Khe; physical description of facilities at 17th Field Hospital; his responsibilities as medical supply officer; descriptions of and comments about unit personnel; problems in procuring medical supplies; problems with drunkenness among personnel; enemy mortar attacks; discipline problems; his institution of reforms in the medical supply operations; effects of constant changeovers in unit command; remodeling of the Officer's Club; leisure time and recreational activities; racial tensions; comments about U S domestic politics; personal financial matters; planning for a leave in Hawaii with his wife, Elizabeth, and parents; drug problems among personnel; comments about the anti-war movement in the States; description of Cam Ranh Bay and the military facilities there; medical supplies and black marketeering; description of the medical depot supply system; future civilian employment plans; transfer to Qui Nhon to the 67th Evacuation Hospital; comments about the Paris peace negotiations for ending the war; interest in stateside sports; comments about the doctors and nurses; comments about the Army's decorations and commendations policies; plans for leaving Vietnam and separation from the Army.
Date of Interview: 01/01/1968 to 31/12/1969
Interview ID: OH 1282
His letters from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Jaeger, during 1969 when he was stationed in Vietnam. [Transcripts of audiotapes.]
Date of Interview: 01/01/1968 to 31/12/1969
JAGOE, Joe (b. 1913)
Jagoe Abstract Company; Lewisville Fishing Barge.
JAGOE, Joe (b. 1913)
Jagoe Abstract Company; Lewisville Fishing Barge.Interview ID: OHB 0083
Owner and operator, Jagoe Abstract Company, Denton, Texas and co-owner, Lewisville Fishing Barge, Lewisville, Texas. Family background; history of Carroll’s abstract business and Jagoe Abstract Company; history of Denton courthouses; origins of First Mondays in Denton; Denton Transportation, 1920s; comments on father’s experiences operating abstract company; effects of Depression in Denton; employment as weigher for Jagoe Public Construction Company, 1938; work with Universal Credit Company, Fort Worth, 1940; employment, with Jagoe Abstract Company, 1946; description of title policies; problems of insurance claims filed against title policies; description of locations of Jagoe Abstract Company in Denton; comments concerning record-keeping on cards, microfilm, and computers; views on boom of housing and abstract business following World War II; description of development of Southridge and Montecito areas in Denton; description of typical abstract; comments on personnel; incorporation of business, 1960; sale of business, 1978; description of area independent abstract companies; comments on Denton Square businesses; civic and trade association activities; history of Lewisville Fishing Barge; description of services offered at Barge; problems insuring Barge operation; dealings with City of Lewisville and Corps of Engineers; entry into fishing barge operation, 1978; effects of droughts and floods on business; description of typical day’s activities; comments on employees; experiences with ranching and real estate.
Date of Interview: 26/05/1983
JAMES, Houston (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JAMES, Houston (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0600
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with VP-24 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 26/05/1983
JAMES, Lester Lee (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JAMES, Lester Lee (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1740
Experiences in the Pacific Theater aboard the USS Crescent City during the World War II; early years in Texas and California; work experience as a skilled tradesman in Nevada and Utah prior to military service; drafted into U.S. Navy and conflict with religious affiliation as Seventh Day Adventist; shipboard life and duties while on an amphibian personnel attack ship during Pacific island battles and as part of a convoy; brief port call at Wellington, New Zealand; recollections of civilian career and personal life.
Date of Interview: 24/02/2011
JAMES, N. Jesse (b. 1914)
JAMES, N. Jesse (b. 1914)
Interview ID: OH 0985
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 08/10/1993
JAMES, Virgil (b. 1898)
JAMES, Virgil (b. 1898)
Interview ID: OH 1459
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His reminiscences about life and families in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1908. Identification of land and property owners; comments about Vaughn Town; identification of African-American settlements; comments about Jackie Davis Cemetery; his description of land and property during a driving tour of northern Denton County.
Date of Interview: 04/03/1987
JAMISON, Alonzo (b. 1918)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.
JAMISON, Alonzo (b. 1918)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0003
College professor, farmer-stockman, former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Texas House of Representatives; House speakerships in general; lobbyist activities.
Date of Interview: 30/07/1965
Interview ID: OH 0010
His experiences and personal views on the Sixtieth Legislature; activities on House Education Committee.
Date of Interview: 26/07/1967
Interview ID: OH 0032
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature. Appropriations; revenue bills; comments about budget-making process; legislature’s relationship with Governor John Connally; liquor legislation; urban-rural conflict.
Date of Interview: 30/07/1968
JASSO, Fr. Stephen (b. 1932)
JASSO, Fr. Stephen (b. 1932)
Interview ID: OH 1644
For the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Oral History Project. Pastor of Fort Worth’s All Saints Catholic Church. Childhood in Waco, Texas; education in Waco schools, at Saint Francis University and institutions in Spain and Italy; career in Mexico; decision to return to Texas to lead All Saints’ parish; demographics of parish and needs of parishioners; involvement in Fort Worth’s 2006 immigrant rights march.
Date of Interview: 12/10/2007
JENKINS, Floyd (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JENKINS, Floyd (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0594
His experiences while aboard the auxiliary repair ship USS Rigel during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/12/1982
JENNY, Thomas (b. 1930)
U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.
JENNY, Thomas (b. 1930)
U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.Interview ID: OH 1916
For the Air America Oral History Project. Memories of growing up in Pittsburgh and Miami. First thoughts on becoming an aircraft pilot and joining the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. Transitioning form the Navy to the Marine Corp and joining active duty squadrons. Years spent flying for Pan-America before joining Air America. Flight and rescue missions while flying for Air America.
Date of Interview: 02/04/2013
JIMERSON, Annie M (b. 1911)
JIMERSON, Annie M (b. 1911)
Interview ID: OH 1139
Her experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Lufkin, Texas; joining the CCC; employment as a clerk with CCC East Texas Headquarters office in Lufkin, Texas; transfer to CCC North Texas District Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas; description of headquarters; life in headquarters.
Date of Interview: 02/10/1996
JO GALLENT, Julio Cesar (b. 1986)
JO GALLENT, Julio Cesar (b. 1986)
Interview ID: OH 1769
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Cuban-born immigrant to Garland, Texas. Childhood in Cuba as a second generation Spanish-Korean; escape from Communism via boat; refugee experience in Guantánamo Bay; first memories of the U.S.; transition to American life; move to Texas; comparison of life in Cuba to life in America; effects of U.S. trade embargo on Cubans.
Date of Interview: 02/12/2012
JOHNS, Gerald (b. 1925) and Irmgard Stieger (b. 1928)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. SHAEF.
JOHNS, Gerald (b. 1925) and Irmgard Stieger (b. 1928)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. SHAEF.Interview ID: OH 1200
Army veteran and his German war bride. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II while attached to SHAEF; her experiences as a German civilian before and during World War II. His original assignment to K Company, 116th Infantry, 29th Division; transfer to Headquarters Command, SHAEF, as head of the officer's mess, 1944; comments about entertainers Glenn Miller, Jack Benny, Paulette Goddard, and AL Jenkins; transfer of SHAEF to France after D-Day; transfer of SHAEF to Frankfurt-am- Main; personal observations of relations between Generals Dwight D Eisenhower and George S Patton; redesignation of SHAEF to USFET following the defeat of Germany and subsequent American occupation; transfer to Kronberg Castle as head of the officer's mess; observations of civilian hardships in postwar Germany; screening of civilian staff for ex-Nazis. Irmgard's youth in prewar Nazi Germany; her membership in the Hitler Youth and personally meeting Adolf Hitler at a party rally in Frankfurt; anti- Semitism in her home village of Schonberg; Allied air raids; her initial encounters with American troops; economic hardships of her family after the war; employment as a waitress at Kronberg Castle and her first encounter with Sergeant Gerald Johns; their account of the theft of the crown jewels at Kronberg Castle; stealing food for her family; their first date; her near accident with General Eisenhower while horseback riding; his marriage proposal and her family's reaction; their marriage on September 2, 1947; her reception as a German war bride by his family and the residents of Wrightsville, Pa., 1947.
Date of Interview: 11/08/1997
JOHNSEN, Kenneth G. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 426th Air Force Band.
JOHNSEN, Kenneth G. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 426th Air Force Band.Interview ID: OH 1372
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Army Air Forces, 1940; acceptance in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; his resignation from the Aviation Cadet Program during basic flight training as the result of the death of a close friend in a plane crash; assignment to the 426th Air Force band, Waco, Texas, 1943; stateside band activities, 1943-45; transfer to India and entertainment of troops, 1945.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1999
JOHNSON, Albert (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JOHNSON, Albert (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0263
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 20/12/1974
JOHNSON, Donald (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JOHNSON, Donald (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0266
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 21/12/1974
JOHNSON, Dr. Herbert K. “Herbie” (b. 1934)
JOHNSON, Dr. Herbert K. “Herbie” (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 1574
African-American alumnus of North Texas State College. Memories of childhood in “Near North” Dallas and South Dallas, Texas, including bombing of African-Americans’ homes in newly desegregated South Dallas; early education in all-black schools, including Lincoln High School, in Dallas; experience at Texas Southern University; two years’ service in U.S. Army; decision to enroll at North Texas State College in 1957; experience of boarding with African-American families in the “Shack Town” neighborhood of Denton; courting of Jessalyn Gray (now Jessalyn Gray Johnson); experience of attending North Dallas as a member of minority race; graduation from North Texas in 1959; comparison of experience at North Texas vs. experience as doctoral student at Nova University; career with Dallas Independent School District.
Date of Interview: 11/04/2006
JOHNSON, Eddie Bernice (b. 1934)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.
JOHNSON, Eddie Bernice (b. 1934)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0218
Nurse, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Texas Legislature. Early life in a segregated society; early political activities; campaign for the Texas House of Representatives, 1972; Black Caucus; Women’s Caucus; reform legislation; appropriations; personal legislation; altercation with Comptroller Robert Calvert; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 03/08/1973 to 13/08/1973, 02/10/1973
Interview ID: OH 0320
Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. House speakership race; committee appointments; public school financing; constitutional revision; public utilities legislation; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 10/09/1975 to 01/12/1975
JOHNSON, Everett (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JOHNSON, Everett (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0202
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 18/05/1974
JOHNSON, Frank A., Jr. “Bud” (b. 1922)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
JOHNSON, Frank A., Jr. “Bud” (b. 1922)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1668
Childhood and education in Easton, Pa.; family’s experience in the Great Depression; father’s service in U.S. Navy in World War I; decision to go to work while still attending school at age of thirteen; work with Lehigh Valley Railroad; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; family’s move to New York City; service as civilian air raid warden; drafted into U.S. Army in 1942; courtship with now-wife, Evelyne; basic training at Ft. Dix, N.J.; assignment to cryptography training program in Pawling, N.Y.; assignment to Albrook Field, Panama; assignments throughout Central and South America, which mainly involved intercepting communications of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers; help provided by network of Catholic priests; breaking German code; feelings regarding war’s end; return to New York City; civilian career in manufacturing.
Date of Interview: 16/01/2009
JOHNSON, James (b. 1915)
JOHNSON, James (b. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 1546
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Burleson, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 09/12/1978
JOHNSON, Karl A. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JOHNSON, Karl A. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0474
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 09/12/1978
JOHNSON, Lee E. (b. 1893)
U.S. Army WWI Veteran.
JOHNSON, Lee E. (b. 1893)
U.S. Army WWI Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0313
Retired educator. His recollections about military life during World War I. Education; enlistment in Texas National Guard; training at Pecan Gap; Camp Bowie; formation of 36th Division; officers training school at Camp Pike, Arkansas; embarkation for France; Saint-Amand; Saint-Nazaire.
Date of Interview: 21/04/1976
JOHNSON, Marilyn Jean (b. 1932)
JOHNSON, Marilyn Jean (b. 1932)
Interview ID: OH 1784
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Reflections on segregation, desegregation, and racial tensions in Fort Worth and Dallas from the 1950s-2010s from the perspective of a black female. Born in Champaign, Illinois; longtime resident of the Como neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas.
Date of Interview: 24/03/2014
JOHNSON, Willie B. (b. 1913)
JOHNSON, Willie B. (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 0819
Community leader. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Early life in East Texas; moving to Dallas; job opportunities for African Americans; employment at Parkland hospital in Dallas, 1954-69; decision to buy a home in Hamilton Park; Hamilton Park school activities; Hamilton Park civic League; Biracial Committee; her children; street and traffic problems; zoning problems comments about Olin Scurlock; transportation problems; desegregation and closing of Hamilton Park High School; Christian Action Layman’s League; recreational needs; flooding problems; Willie B. Johnson Recreation Center; “The Buy Out.”
Date of Interview: 09/02/1990 to 22/02/1990
JOHNSTON, Paul (b. 1947)
JOHNSTON, Paul (b. 1947)
Interview ID: OH 1539
His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. Influence of the Beatles on his music tastes; enrollment at the University of Texas , 1965-1969; his stint in the military, 1969-71; his interest in photography; his return to the University of Texas in 1971 and his comments about changes in the campus culture during his absence; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival [before entering the service]; his obtaining a press pass and taking photographs during the festival; comments about the various musical groups that performed; activities of the Hog Farm; his privileged seat directly in front of the performance stage; creating his personal website dealing with the festival.
Date of Interview: 21/02/2004
JOHNSTON, Richard L. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 382nd Engineer Battalion.
JOHNSTON, Richard L. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 382nd Engineer Battalion.Interview ID: OH 1351
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His education in western Pennsylvania; enrollment in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-34; employment with Edgewater Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1937-42; enlistment in the Army and assignment to the Engineer Corps, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942; assignment to the 382nd Engineer Battalion (Separate) at Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1942; training of and working with African-American troops; assignment to India, June 1, 1943; construction of the Ledo Road, 1943-44; road maintenance; his battalion’s role in the construction of the 20th Air Force headquarters at Kharagpur, India, 1944; his transfer to assist in the construction of the Tata Steel Mill in India, 1944-45; his wound inflicted by a Japanese grenade and evacuation to the United States, August, 1945.
Date of Interview: 17/02/1999
JOHNSTONE, Ruth Ann (b. 1946)
JOHNSTONE, Ruth Ann (b. 1946)
Interview ID: OH 2039
Ruth Ann Johnstone shares her experience in visual merchandising in the Dallas fashion industry. After studying fashion history, design, and merchandising at Texas Tech University and the University of North Texas, Johnstone worked as a “trimmer” at retailer Titche-Goettinger in downtown Dallas, transitioning to a similar position in at NorthPark Neiman-Marcus in 1973 and later working for Neiman-Marcus corporate in downtown Dallas. She describes the department stores and learning and teaching “NM Way” of practicing visual merchandising, as well as preparations for the Nieman-Marcus fortnight events. Broader descriptions of the Dallas fashion industry share the interconnected talents and institutions of people working in merchandising, as well as cultural moments like Neiman-Marcus expansion and the AIDS epidemic.
Date of Interview: 28/07/2020
JOLLEY, A. B. (b. 1890)
JOLLEY, A. B. (b. 1890)
Interview ID: OHB 0099
Dallas county agricultural agent, Dallas, Texas. Description of father’s farming and livestock operation, Tarrant County, Texas; employment as teacher in Tarrant, Collin, and Hood Counties; experiences attending North Texas State Normal College, early 1900s; disciplinary experiences as teacher in public schools; employment as assistant county agricultural agent, Dallas, 1919; demonstration work with Dallas County youth in 4-H Clubs; description of origin and activities of Farm Bureau in Texas; appointment as Dallas County Agent, 1921; comments on farmers’ diversification of crops; development of cattle and dairy industry in Dallas County; description of judging demonstrations on town squares; comments on grasshopper pest control; description of advent of commercial fertilizer demonstrations, 1920s; effects of Depression on Dallas County farmers; discussion of diversification and specialization of crops; description of local effects of agricultural adjustment Act, 1933; benefits of crop restriction program; comments on Resettlement Administration program; involvement of Extension Service with agricultural adjustment program; effects of World War II on Dallas County agriculture; reasons for retirement as Dallas County Agent, 1953; newspaper, radio, and television activities concerning agriculture; views on involvement of county agents in politics; benefits of community fairs.
Date of Interview: 15/04/1977 to 12/05/1977
JOLLEY, Jimmie (b. 1933)
JOLLEY, Jimmie (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 1578
African-American alumnus of North Texas State College. Memories of childhood and early adulthood in Crockett and Big Spring, Texas; dislike of farm work, which made him determined to gain an education; experience in all-black schools; service in Korean War-era U.S. Army, including experiences with racial segregation; use of G.I. Bill to attend Howard College in Big Spring; decision to transfer to North Texas; interaction with students and faculty, particularly in the School of Business; interaction with members of the African-American community in Denton; career with Cosden Oil and Chemical Co. and Fina Oil and Chemical Co.
Date of Interview: 06/04/2006
JOLY, Greg (b. 1962)
JOLY, Greg (b. 1962)
Interview ID: OH 1790
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood in Massachusetts; early experiences with gardening; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; memories of Scott and Helen Nearing; the Good Life Center.
Date of Interview: 26/07/2014
JONES, Bobby (b. *)
JONES, Bobby (b. *)
Interview ID: OH 1826
For the Southlake Historical Society’s Bob Jones Family Oral History Project. Grandson of Bob Jones and Director Emeritus of Bob Jones Nature Center. Bob Jones family history; segregation in Southlake and surrounding area; Jones annual picnic; Jones family traditions; impact of Civil Rights Act; impact of Jones family on local area.
Date of Interview: 19/06/2014
JONES, Edward W. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
JONES, Edward W. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: Oh 0672
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/04/1986
Interview ID: OH 0740
Laborer. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Louisiana; employment with Works Progress Administration (WPA); Public Works Administration (PWA), and National Youth Administration (NYA); joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Thibodaux, Louisiana; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 15/11/1987
JONES, George E. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 576th Bomb Squadron. 392nd Bomb Group. 2nd Air Division. 8th Air Force.
JONES, George E. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 576th Bomb Squadron. 392nd Bomb Group. 2nd Air Division. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1324
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1942; basic flight training, Greenville, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Waco, Texas, 1942; bomber training, Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, Arizona, 1943; crew training in California, 1943; his personal assessment of the B-24 bomber; flight to England and assignment to the 576th Bomb Squadron, 1943; his description of various missions in 1944; "Big Week," February, 1944; his description of enemy flak and fighter tactics; crash-landing in England due to damage caused by German fighter planes; additional accounts and description of battle damage and crew casualties; the shooting down of his plane and subsequent capture on July 7, 1944; interrogation at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; Stalag Luft III, 1944-45; evacuation and march to Stalag Luft VII-A, Moosburg, Germany, 1945; liberation on April 29, 1945.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1999
Interview ID: OH 1340
Miscellaneous documents, including portions of his flight log from missions to France and Germany, 1944; printed accounts of his capture and experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Germany, 1944-45.
Date of Interview: 01/01/1968
JONES, Grant (b. 1922)
Texas Senate. Democrat.
JONES, Grant (b. 1922)
Texas Senate. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0283
Insurance executive, member of the Texas Senate from Abilene, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Personal political philosophy; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 21/07/1975
Interview ID: OH 0490
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Appointment as chairman of the Finance Committee; Legislative budget board and the budget-making process; comments about Comptroller Bob Bullock; comments about of Governor William Clements; appropriations bill; tax relief legislation; public school financing; Peveto Bill; comments about “Killer Bees”; consumer legislation.
Date of Interview: 21/08/1979
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