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MARBY, Dorinda (b. 1947)
Braniff International Airways.
MARBY, Dorinda (b. 1947)
Braniff International Airways.Interview ID: OH 1961
Marby, Dorinda: Various roles: line maintenance, scheduling flight attendants and pilots, to Flight Attendant. 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
MARCELLO, Alfred J. (b. 1932)
MARCELLO, Alfred J. (b. 1932)
Interview ID: OH 1356
Educator. His experiences as a young teenager on the home front in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during World War II. His family’s economic situation during the Great Depression; teenage recreational activities before World War II; the town’s reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; the establishment of an armed guard at the entrances to the Wrightsville-Columbia bridge, which spanned the Susquehanna River; Council of National Defense; establishment of air raid wardens and the imposition of blackouts; sources of war news; economic improvements as a result of the war; attitudes toward “4-F’ers” and “draft dodgers”; wartime rationing; the sale of the local baseball diamond and its conversion to agricultural land; scrap metal drives; Boy Scout activities; collection of milkweed for the making of life preservers; patriotic themes in local schools and churches; war-related boyhood games; troop convoys; his wartime jobs; wartime leisure activities for adults; town’s reaction to the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945; V-J Day celebrations; returning veterans; transition of the town from war to peace.
Date of Interview: 07/08/2000
MARCUM, Candy (b. 1950)
MARCUM, Candy (b. 1950)
Interview ID: OH 1797
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Licensed counselor and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Big Spring, Texas; college in the Dallas area; work with Oak Lawn Counseling Center; AIDS crisis; involvement in the Human Rights Campaign; work as a columnist with the Dallas Voice; the Dallas Gay Alliance (DGA); coming out; involvement in the Dallas gay community.
Date of Interview: 03/06/2014
MARTIN, Clark (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MARTIN, Clark (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0595
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/12/1982
MARTIN, Hugh (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MARTIN, Hugh (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1084
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/10/1995
MARTIN, Jack J. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MARTIN, Jack J. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0725
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/11/1987
MARTIN, Lonnie E. (b. 1912)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 36th Service Group.
MARTIN, Lonnie E. (b. 1912)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 36th Service Group.Interview ID: OH 1432
His experiences as an administrative officer in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His education at Georgia Military College and the University of Georgia, 1934-38; his career as a journalist, 1938-40; enlistment in the Army Air Forces as an infantry officer and training at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1940; his transfer to the 36th Service Group and assignment to Australia, January, 1942; his role in preparing bases in Australia for the 36th Bomb Group; transfer to Port Moresby, New Guinea, January, 1943; airfield construction at Port Moresby; Japanese harassment raids; transfer to the 5th Air Force Service Command Headquarters, Nadzab, New Guinea, 1944; airfield construction at Nadzab; his return to the States, October, 1944; assignment to Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, as a personnel officer, 1944-45; his postwar career in the U.S. Air Force in personnel work.
Date of Interview: 19/09/2001
MARTIN, Wayne D. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MARTIN, Wayne D. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0651
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/06/1984
MARTINEZ, Elisa Castillo (b. 1911)
MARTINEZ, Elisa Castillo (b. 1911)
Interview ID: OH 1564
Community activist. Her experiences as an activist in the Mexican-American community of Fort Worth, Texas. Her youth in the coal-mining town of Bridgeport, Texas; experiences concerning discrimination in Bridgeport; closing of the mines in 1931 and the family move to Fort Worth; her work with the Mexican Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth in its outreach programs for Latinos; tensions between Anglos and Latinos; Mexican-American social activities and celebrations; her work in amnesty and citizenship programs; political activities; evolution of the Northside neighborhood.
Date of Interview: 31/01/2004
MARTÍNEZ-EBERS, Dr. Valerie (b. 1956)
MARTÍNEZ-EBERS, Dr. Valerie (b. 1956)
Interview ID: OH 1853
Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and former UNT student. Childhood as an Army brat; education; family background; discrimination against Mexican Americans; attending UNT with a Mexican American ancestry; growing awareness of ethnicity and ethnic identity; student activism; differences in treatment and attitudes towards Latinos/Latinas in various parts of the United States; teaching politics of race and ethnicity at UNT; continued activism; UNT organizations for Latinos/Latinas.
Date of Interview: 22/10/2105
MASCH, John R. (b. 1931)
MASCH, John R. (b. 1931)
Interview ID: OH 1820
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Long-time Denton resident. Family history; Denton history; political changes in Denton; Krum, Texas history; model-making.
Date of Interview: 17/11/2012
MASON, Carl B. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
MASON, Carl B. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0547
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 3rd Engineer Battalion during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 28/07/1981
MASON, Jim (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MASON, Jim (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1142
His experiences as a corpsman at the Naval Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; also anecdotal information about Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
Date of Interview: 28/09/1996
MASSEY, Seth (b. 1913)
MASSEY, Seth (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 1205
Businessman. His reminiscences about the history of Denton, Texas, 1920-1976. Community swimming pools; comments about Hollywood actress Ann Sheridan; Massey and Hoffer Service Station; Great Depression; Interurban streetcars; Quakertown [African-American section of Denton].
Date of Interview: 08/04/1986
MASTON, Thomas B. (b. 1897)
MASTON, Thomas B. (b. 1897)
Interview ID: OH 0228
College professor, theologian. Religious fundamentalism in Texas during the 1920s; his philosophy of Christian ethics; Norris Movement; his teaching philosophy; Southern Baptists and social concern.
Date of Interview: 30/07/1974 to 31/07/1974
MATLOCK, Sidney C. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
MATLOCK, Sidney C. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0555
Member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance work in Burma, 1944; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 09/09/1981
MATTHEWS, J. C. (b. 1901)
MATTHEWS, J. C. (b. 1901)
Interview ID: OH 0360
Former president of North Texas State College and North Texas State University. His experiences concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56. Initial period of integration on campus; attitudes of student body, faculty, townspeople, board of regents; Atkins suit; Campus Theatre incident; desegregation of local businesses; desegregation of athletic program.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1977
Interview ID: OH 0633
His experiences concerning the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 04/04/1984
Interview ID: OH 0656
Early childhood and adolescence; early teaching experiences; student at North Texas State Normal College during 1920s; appointment as a teacher in the college Laboratory School; principal, college Laboratory School; curriculum committee, State Department of Education; dean, College of Education; curriculum planning in College of Education; the Southern Study; desegregation of North Texas State College, 1955.
Date of Interview: 08/03/1984 to 19/04/1984, 01/05/1984 to 05/06/1984, 26/07/1984
MATTHEWS, Kingsley A. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MATTHEWS, Kingsley A. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0782
His experiences while aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 30/09/1989
MATTHEWS, Martin (b. 1926)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MATTHEWS, Martin (b. 1926)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0430
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 02/08/1978
MATULA, Emil (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
MATULA, Emil (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0204
His experiences while stationed at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 18/05/1974
MAUZY, Oscar (b. 1926)
Texas Senate. Democrat.
MAUZY, Oscar (b. 1926)
Texas Senate. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0157
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Legislature. Freshmen senators; comments about Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; committee appointments; reform legislation; Comparative Negligence Bill; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 12/07/1973
Interview ID: OH 0290
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Texas Legislature. Comments about Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; public school financing; comments about Comptroller Bob Bullock; public utilities legislation; College Coordinating Bill; constitutional revision; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 17/07/1975
Interview ID: OH 0483
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Influence of Proposition 13 in California; ad valorem taxation; roles of Speaker Bill Clayton, Janey and Governor Dolph Briscoe in call for a special session; election year politics; Senate caucus; repeal of sales tax on residential utility bills; increase in inheritance tax exemptions; taxation of agricultural and timber land; homestead exemptions for the elderly; Peveto Bill.
Date of Interview: 23/10/1978
Interview ID: OH 0500
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Comments about Governor William Clements; appropriations; teacher salaries; public school financing; consumer legislation; presidential primary bill; “Killer Bees.”
Date of Interview: 02/08/1979
Interview ID: OH 0556
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-seventh Legislature. Elections of 1980; initiative-referendum; abortion issue; law-and-order legislation; redistricting; state water plan; comments about Ross Perot, Governor William Clements, Lieutenant Governor William Hobby, and Attorney General Mark White.
Date of Interview: 19/02/1982
Interview ID: OH 0630
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-eighth Legislature. Comments about Lieutenant Governor William hobby and Governor Mark White; midnight appointments; teacher pay raise; taxation and appropriations; Jurisprudence Committee.
Date of Interview: 09/03/1984
Interview ID: OH 0016
Attorney, member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Legislature.
Date of Interview: 03/11/1967
Interview ID: OH 0030
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature.
Date of Interview: 25/07/1968
Interview ID: OH 0037
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature.
Date of Interview: 25/06/1969
Interview ID: OH 0041
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Special Sessions of the Sixty-first Legislature.
Date of Interview: 01/12/1969
Interview ID: OH 0081
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 23/06/1971
MAYNARD, Donald (b. 1929)
Braniff International Airways.
MAYNARD, Donald (b. 1929)
Braniff International Airways.Interview ID: OH 1962
Maynard, Donald: Pilot (first pilot hired that wore glasses), Flight Engineer worked for Braniff and Braniff II. 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: 08/06/2013
McADAMS, Linnie (b. ca. 1937)
McADAMS, Linnie (b. ca. 1937)
Interview ID: OH 1904
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Contemporary state of civil rights progress; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; discrimination; poverty; Quakertown; continued community involvement; women’s rights; educational and professional background; activism; contemporary civil rights issues; contemporary politics; whiteness of black movies.
Date of Interview: 02/03/2017
Interview ID: OH 0718
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship in the 1960s and 1970s. Educational experiences in segregated schools; living conditions in the African-American section of Denton; joining the Fellowship; Denton Christian Preschool; desegregation of Denton schools; early meetings of Fellowship; desegregation of public facilities; segregation in Denton; Denton churches and integration; job opportunities; personal employment experiences; role of African-American churches; lasting perceptions of the Fellowship; public housing.
Date of Interview: 10/12/1987
McADAMS, Willie Frances (b. 1939)
McADAMS, Willie Frances (b. 1939)
Interview ID: OH 0730
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the l960s and l970s. Childhood memories of the African-American community in Denton; segregated education; decision to join the Fellowship; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; early social meetings of the Fellowship; desegregation of the Denton public schools; jobs program; tutoring program; school problems; desegregation of restaurants in Denton; desegregation of Denton’s churches; involvement of husbands in Fellowship activities; defeat of urban renewal; voting drives; views concerning the future of the African-American community in Denton.
Date of Interview: 27/04/1988
McADOW, Maurice (b. 1904)
McADOW, Maurice (b. 1904)
Interview ID: OH 0579
Former band director, School of Music, North Texas State College and North Texas State University. Early career as a musician; appointment to faculty at North Texas; development of the North Texas band program.
Date of Interview: 17/10/1982
McCAIN, Fred (b. 1923)
McCAIN, Fred (b. 1923)
Interview ID: OH 0636
Former football coach, director of athletics at North Texas State University. His experiences as a football coach during the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics at North Texas State College, 1954-56.
Date of Interview: 02/04/1984
McCALL, Dean (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
McCALL, Dean (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0066
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Japanese bombing of Nichols Field; fall of Bataan; fall of Corregidor and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Clark Field, 1943; Bilibid Prison, 1943; Nichols Field, 1943; hell ship to Japan, 1943; copper mining at Motiyama, Honshu, 1943-45; American air raids and naval bombardments; liberation.
Date of Interview: 26/02/1971
McCLAIN, James L. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
McCLAIN, James L. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0777
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/09/1988
McCLELLAND, James (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
McCLELLAND, James (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0428
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/07/1978
McCOLM, George L. (b. 1911)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
McCOLM, George L. (b. 1911)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1095
Agricultural expert. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Education at Kansas State College; experiences in agricultural marketing research; employment with the Production Marketing Administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration; employment at Topaz Relocation Center for Japanese Americans, 1942-44; induction into U.S. Navy, 1944; role in planning for the invasion of the Japanese home islands, 1945; role in writing Japanese land reform laws during postwar American occupation.
Date of Interview: 18/03/1995
McCUNE, Evelyn Myers (b. 1918)
McCUNE, Evelyn Myers (b. 1918)
Interview ID: OH 1148
Nurse. Her experiences as a civilian secretary with the State Department in Washington, D.C., before and during World War II. Educational background; decision to take a position with the State Department in early 1941; adjustments in moving from a town of 2,500 people to the nation's capital; personal observations of activities at the Japanese embassy on December 7, 1941; wartime living conditions, rationing, and transportation adjustments; social life; comments about and observations of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Japanese ambassadors Saburo Kurusu and Kichisabura Nomura, Ambassador Joseph Grew, and Eleanor Roosevelt; working with diplomatic codes; incident involving President Roosevelt's stamp collection; decision to join the Cadet Nurse Corps, 1944.
Date of Interview: 04/08/1996
McDANIEL, George (b. 1915)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
McDANIEL, George (b. 1915)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0171
Draftsman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II; fall of Wake island and capture; hell ship to China, 1942; Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1942; Kiangwang Prison Camp, 1942-45; Pusan, Korea, 1945; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 23/10/1973
Interview ID: OH 0173
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 04/12/1973
McDOLE, Glen (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. D Company. 1st Separate Marine Battalion.
McDOLE, Glen (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. D Company. 1st Separate Marine Battalion.Interview ID: OH 1317
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor; survivor of the Palawan massacre. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Enlistment in the Marine Corps and assignment to Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines; bombing of Cavite by the Japanese and evacuation to Corregidor; fall of Corregidor, 1942; his personal comments about General Douglas A. MacArthur at Corregidor; initial incarceration at Corregidor; Cabanatuan, 1942; his transfer to Palawan Island, 1942-44; airstrip construction on Palawan; American air raids; his details of the Palawan massacre and his escape, December, 1944; his rescue by Filipinos and evacuation by PBY, January 21, 1945; debriefings by the U. S. military; his depositions before the War Crimes Tribunal for the Far East, Yokohama, Japan.
Date of Interview: 10/10/1996
McELVANEY, Dr. William (b. 1928)
McELVANEY, Dr. William (b. 1928)
Interview ID: OH 1670
Dallas clergyman and social activist. Childhood and education in Dallas; membership in Methodist Church; pursuit of undergraduate and MBA degrees from Southern Methodist University; career in banking and oil businesses; decision to enter Perkins School of Theology at SMU and Union Theology Seminary in New York; influence of Reinhold Niebuhr; family life; pastorship of Methodist church in Justin, Tex., St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church of Mesquite, Tex., and Northaven United Methodist Church of Dallas; involvement in Dallas civil rights movement, particularly around issue of fair housing, and efforts to integrate Mesquite schools; involvement in antiwar movement; influence of liberation theology on own thinking and preaching; involvement in gay rights movement; career as teacher and administrator at Saint Paul School of Theology of Kansas City and Perkins School of Theology; efforts to make Northaven a “reconciling congregation”; opinions on “Religious Right” and its role in American politics.
Date of Interview: 20/08/2008
McFATRIDGE, Mrs. Carl (b. 1907) and McFATRIDGE, Billy Ed (b. 1932)
McFATRIDGE, Mrs. Carl (b. 1907) and McFATRIDGE, Billy Ed (b. 1932)
Interview ID: OHB 0014
McFATRIDGE, Mrs. Carl. Wife of Carl McFatridge and co-founder of Carl’s Tasty Sausage. His and her family backgrounds; founding of company; early production, distribution methods, problems; death of Carl McFatridge, 1967.
McFATRIDGE, Billy Ed. Son of founders, president of Carl’s Tasty Sausage. Early work experience; education; church ministry; growth and changes in production methods, equipment; facilities, territory, product lines, employees; sources of supply; pricing problems; government regulations.
Date of Interview: 20/02/1978
McGREGOR, Malcolm (b. 1892)
Texas State Legislator.
McGREGOR, Malcolm (b. 1892)
Texas State Legislator.Interview ID: OH 0007
Attorney, former state legislator. Experiences as a liberal in Texas Legislature, 1954-64; his race for U.S. Congress, 1964.
Date of Interview: 30/08/1965 to 31/08/1965
McGUIRE, David C. (b. 1922)
McGUIRE, David C. (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 0803
College professor. His career in music education and recollections concerning the development of the School of Music, North Texas State University.
Date of Interview: 02/04/1990
McGUIRE, Katherine (b. 1921)
McGUIRE, Katherine (b. 1921)
Interview ID: OH 0722
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Segregation in Denton; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; Denton Christian Preschool; desegregation of public schools; meeting activities; social activities; comments about former president of North Texas State University, John Kamerick; comments about former NTSU poet-in-residence, B. F. Maiz; desegregation of public facilities; churches and integration; integration of NTSU facilities; decline of the group; group’s lasting accomplishments.
Date of Interview: 06/04/1988
McINTIRE, J. E. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
McINTIRE, J. E. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1113
His experiences aboard the destroyer USS Dale during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/12/1995
McKEE, Thomas W. (b. 1919)
McKEE, Thomas W. (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OH 1014
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Ellis County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Waxahachie, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 06/11/1993
McKINLEY, Frank (b. 1915)
McKINLEY, Frank (b. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 0833
College professor. His experiences concerning his career as director of choral music and the development of the College of Music at North Texas State College and North Texas State University. Training with Westminster Choir; comments about Deans Wilfred Bain, Walter Hodgson, Kenneth Cuthbert, and Marceau Myers.
Date of Interview: 16/04/1990
McKINLEY, Joseph (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
McKINLEY, Joseph (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0748
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Cassin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 23/04/1988
McKINNEY, Mattie Ellis Vaughn (b. 1902)
McKINNEY, Mattie Ellis Vaughn (b. 1902)
Interview ID: OH 1442
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her brief reminiscences about rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1905-1985; comments about the founding of Vaughn Town.
Date of Interview: 20/08/1987
McKOOL, Mike (b. 1918)
Texas Senate. Democrat.
McKOOL, Mike (b. 1918)
Texas Senate. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0155
Attorney, former member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Democrat. General views concerning problems in Texas state government. Voter registration bill; appointment of committee members; campaign financial disclosure; ethics legislation; committee structure; appropriations and taxation; annual legislative sessions; lobby activities; insurance legislation.
Date of Interview: 31/12/1971
McLEAN, William Hunter (b. 1909)
McLEAN, William Hunter (b. 1909)
Interview ID: OH 0020
Insurance executive, former chair of the Texas State Board of Insurance, 1963-68; chairman of the Johnson-Humphrey campaign in Texas. Comments on the evolution of the State board of Insurance; insurance scandals of the mid-1950s; fire and casualty rate-making; automobile insurance; Johnson-Humphrey campaign in Texas.
Date of Interview: 24/05/1968 to 30/07/1968
McLEOD, Pat N. (b. 1924)
McLEOD, Pat N. (b. 1924)
Interview ID: OH 1225
College professor. His experiences concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, Denton, Texas, 1955-56. Race relations while growing up in Central Texas, 1930s and 1940s; his African-American friend, Jesse Fisher; racial climate in Denton during 1950s; comments about the role of the President of North Texas State College, James Carl Matthews.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1998
McMILLAN, Darwin (b. 1913)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.
McMILLAN, Darwin (b. 1913)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.Interview ID: OH 0662
Executive. Educational background; early work experience; employment with Texaco in China; comments about the Young Marshall (Chiang Hsueh-Liang); Texaco (China) marketing policies; Texaco’s product lines in China; formation of Caltex, 1936; transfer to Caltex; assignment to Caltex (India), 1937; expansion of the Indian market; employment with Standard Oil of California, 1941; Army Air Corps, 1942; reemployment with Caltex (China); reestablishment of Chinese market after WW II; Chinese Revolution; internment in Communist China, 1949-52; Caltex (Philippines), 1952-56; building of Batangas refinery; hiring of foreign nationals; company reorganization, 1957; assignment to Caltex West; managing director of Caltex (Germany); refinery expansion; marketing in Germany; Frankfurt refinery; divestiture of European markets, 1967; regional director for Africa, 1966; assignment to Caltex (India); nationalization; regional director for South Africa, 1970; OPEC, effects on Caltex.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1985
MCMILLAN, Ernest (b. 1944)
MCMILLAN, Ernest (b. 1944)
Interview ID: OH 1839
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Long-time civil rights activist. Childhood in Dallas; memories of the black community; life during segregation; growing awareness of “race” and racism; participation in the Dallas NAACP Youth Council; Juanita Craft; interest in black history and black power; Dallas SNCC; assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; civil rights activism; police harassment; arrests for activism; Civil Rights Act of 1964; move to Houston; continuing community activism.
Date of Interview: 27/04/2014
MCMILLAN, Eva Partee (b. 1921)
MCMILLAN, Eva Partee (b. 1921)
Interview ID: OH 1824
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil rights activist. Childhood in Tennessee; Dallas life during segregation; involvement in the Dallas Progressive Voters League; experiences with racism; SNCC and SCLC activities; Dallas NAACP; civil rights activism; son’s (Ernest McMillan) activism; influential figures in life; current state of civil rights in America.
Date of Interview: 25/04/2014
McMILLEN, Abbie (b. *)
McMILLEN, Abbie (b. *)
Interview ID: OH 1780
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; early experiences with gardening and self-sufficiency; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
Date of Interview: 04/08/2015
McPARTLIN, James (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 401st Bomb Squadron. 91st Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
McPARTLIN, James (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 401st Bomb Squadron. 91st Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1305
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Entry into the Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; primary, basic, and advanced training, 1941-42; assignment to the 91st Bomb Group for B-17 training, 1942; characteristics of the B-17; stationing at Kimbolton, England, as assistant operations officer, September, 1942; transfer to Basingbourn, England, October, 1942; his first mission to the German submarine pens at Saint Nazaire, France; promotion to operations officer and lead pilot; development of American bomber tactics; comments about air crew integrity; mission to Oschersleben, Germany, January, 1944; raids to Schweinfurt and Berlin; operations on D-Day; return to the U.S., September, 1944.
Date of Interview: 30/06/1999
McQUEEN, Effie (b. 1939)
McQUEEN, Effie (b. 1939)
Interview ID: OH 1802
For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Long-time Denton resident. Childhood in Marshall, Texas; move to Denton; North Texas State University Trailblazers; segregation; local civil rights protests; Denton history; Quakertown; changes in Denton; job discrimination.
Date of Interview: 30/04/2013
McQUEEN, Sandy (b. 1950)
McQUEEN, Sandy (b. 1950)
Interview ID: OH 1521
His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His introduction to the hippie subculture while in high school; his experiences with racism among white property owners in the South Oak Cliff section of Dallas during the 1960s; the influence of the “British Invasion” and the Beatles; his description of hippies in Lee Park in Dallas; protests against the Vietnam War; his being drafted into the Army and opting for service in the National Guard; his account of an anti-war demonstration led by Jane Fonda in Killeen, Texas; his personal views about ethnic and race relations in the military during the 1960s; his comments on Jefferson Airplane, the Mamas and the Papas, and Bob Dylan; reaction to the news of the coming of the Texas International Pop Festival and his decision to attend; attending the festival with his pregnant wife and a friend; drug and alcohol use at the festival; activities of the Hog Farm; wearing attire of those in attendance; nude bathing; comments about “Wavy Gravy,” the leader of the Hog Farm; free love at the festival; comments about the performance of Minnie Riperton and the Rotary Connection, Led Zeppelin, Chicago Transit Authority, and B. B. King at the festival; “bad trip” tents; lasting effects of the festival on his life.
Date of Interview: 04/10/2003
McQUIRTER, Ardath Sue Hutchins (b. 1944)
McQUIRTER, Ardath Sue Hutchins (b. 1944)
Interview ID: OH 1396
Homemaker. Her reminiscences about her African-American family in Jackson, Mississippi, and Gary, Indiana. Early youth in Jackson; African-American social and cultural life in Jackson; early experiences with segregation; her family’s emphasis on education; her father’s migration to Gary in search of work, 1945; her permanent move to Gary; family life in Gary; race relations in Gary; her summer visits back to Mississippi during the 1950s; her return to Mississippi with her mother in 1953; adjustments in moving back to the South; church activities; comments about various family members.
Date of Interview: 13/11/2000 to 14/11/2000
McSHAN, William (b. 1908)
McSHAN, William (b. 1908)
Interview ID: OH 0932
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas and New Mexico; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp SP-9-O in Ardmore, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 14/10/1993
McVEAN, John A. (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
McVEAN, John A. (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1096
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/10/1995
MEISTER, Maury (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MEISTER, Maury (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0836
His experiences while on patrol with VP-24 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 11/04/1991
MENDENHALL, Corwin (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MENDENHALL, Corwin (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1123
His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sculpin and USS Pintado in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date of Interview: 03/04/1995
MERCER, William A. (b. 1926)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MERCER, William A. (b. 1926)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1112
Radio/TV announcer. His experiences aboard LCI-439 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Battle of Leyte Gulf and kamikazes; Battle of Okinawa; preparations for invasion of Honshu.
Date of Interview: 14/12/1995
MERCER, William E. (b. 1926)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MERCER, William E. (b. 1926)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1039
His experiences as a survivor of the sinking of the destroyer USS Johnston during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944.
Date of Interview: 07/07/1994
MERRILL, Eli (b. 1919)
MERRILL, Eli (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OH 1517
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Callahan County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Brownwood, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 10/09/2003
MERRILL, Harold E. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MERRILL, Harold E. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0611
His experiences aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 21/10/1983
MESKILL, David T. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MESKILL, David T. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1182
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II aboard the USS Spence. His duties in the S Division as paymaster and disbursing officer; battle station in the Combat Information Center; comments about the skipper, Lieutenant Commander Henry J. Armstrong; assignment to Solomon Islands as part of Destroyer Squadron 23 (DesRon 23); combat in "The Slot"; comments about Commander Arleigh Burke; Bougainville landings; Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, November 1, 1944; morale and recreation ashore; treatment of Japanese prisoners-of-war; everyday life aboard the Spence; origins of the "Little Beavers" nickname for DesRon 23; action off Truk; invasions of Saipan and Tinian, 1944; transfer off the Spence to stateside duty; separation from the Navy; lasting effects of wartime experience.
Date of Interview: 17/05/1997
MESSLER, Dale (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MESSLER, Dale (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0371
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 04/03/1977
MEWHINNEY, Leonard S. (b. 1906)
MEWHINNEY, Leonard S. (b. 1906)
Interview ID: OHB 0092
Labor arbitrator, Denton, Texas. Family background; appointment to Naval Academy, 1923; description of academics and hazing at Naval Academy; assignments in Nicaragua, late 1920s; experiences during World War II as commander of submarine USS Saury in South Pacific; description of torpedo problems during war; teaching management, North Texas State College, 1957; entry into labor arbitration work, late 1950s; early arbitration experiences; comments on arbitration literature and assistance from Helmut Wolfe; views on management-labor selection process of arbitrators; comments on preparation of management and labor before entering arbitration; description of typical arbitration procedure; importance of arbitrator’s strict neutrality at hearings; comments on the National Academy of Arbitrators; description of expediting procedure; view on management’s and labor’s attitudes about arbitration; comments on training for arbitrators.
Date of Interview: 30/05/1985
MEYER, Birdie Gunyun (b. 1952)
MEYER, Birdie Gunyun (b. 1952)
Interview ID: OH 2073
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Birdie Gunyon Meyer discusses her background as a nurse, health educator, support group leader, and lactation consultant. Meyer is a past-President of Postpartum Support International (PSI) and serves on the PSI advisory council. She discusses developments between the 1980s-2020s. She was central to the growth of PSI’s training programs and to the creation of a certification in perinatal mental health (PMH-C). She discusses Jane Honikman, Depression After Delivery, Shoshana Bennett, Pec Indman, Wade Bowen, and Wendy N. Davis.
Date of Interview: 17/01/2023
MEYERSON, Morton H. (b. 1938)
MEYERSON, Morton H. (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 2004
Dallas-based business leader and philanthropist. Grandparents’ experiences in present-day Belarus and Prussia and as immigrants to the U.S. and eventually to Fort Worth; parents’ experiences growing up in Fort Worth. Education in Fort Worth public schools culminating at Paschal High School and at UT-Austin; experiences in U.S. Army. Career as a systems engineer at Bell Helicopter, Electronic Data Systems, General Motors, Perot Systems, and others. Experiences as a philanthropist, including chair of the committee responsible for constructing what became the Meyerson Symphony Center, and as a civic leader, including chair of the committee that brought the superconducting supercollider to Texas.
Date of Interview: 02/03/2021
MICHAEL, Simon (b. 1905)
MICHAEL, Simon (b. 1905)
Interview ID: OH 0128
Artist. His experiences as an artist and art teacher in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1948-72. Early art training; Fulton School of Fine Arts; his move from Fulton to Rockport, Texas; Simon Michael School of Fine Arts; art exhibitions; art and local architectural styles; art students; techniques for teaching art; philosophy of art; contribution of art to the community of Rockport.
Date of Interview: 10/01/1972
MICHELONY, Lewis J. (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
MICHELONY, Lewis J. (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1002
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II and the Korean War. Assignment to 6th Marines, 1943; Guadalcanal; Tarawa; Saipan; Tinian; also Korea and Chosin Reservoir.
Date of Interview: 02/05/1993
MIERS, Wallace (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MIERS, Wallace (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0726
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/11/1987
MILES, Charles H. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
MILES, Charles H. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0581
His experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 23/10/1982
MILLAR, Abram (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 365th Bomb Squadron. 305th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
MILLAR, Abram (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 365th Bomb Squadron. 305th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1321
His experiences as a B-17 gunner/bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; Drake University, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; washing out of the Aviation Cadet Program due to his problems with depth perception; armament school, Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado, 1943; aerial gunnery school, Kingman, Arizona, 1943; gunnery instructors school, Fort Myers, Florida, 1944; assignment to a B-17 crew and phase training, Alexandria, Louisiana, 1944; assignment to the 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston, England, 1944; mission to Merseburg, Germany, 1944; description of combat against German fighters; German flak; a detailed description of his plane being shot down on his eighteenth mission, January 10, 1945; his wounds as a result of being hit by flak; the crash-landing of his plane; recuperation in England; postwar career.
Date of Interview: 11/06/1999
MILLER, A. E. (b. 1916)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
MILLER, A. E. (b. 1916)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0563
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1982
MILLER, A. Tennyson (b. 1913)
MILLER, A. Tennyson (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 0857
Educator. His experiences as a teacher and coach at Frederick Douglass school in Denton, Texas, 1936-43. Comments about Principal Fred Moore; segregated education in Denton; his admission to the doctoral program and breaking the color barrier at North Texas State College, 1954; his teaching philosophy.
Date of Interview: 11/01/1992
MILLER, Chris (b. 1926)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.
MILLER, Chris (b. 1926)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0288
Public relations consultant, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Fort Worth, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; House speakership race; committee appointments; constitutional revision; Equal Rights Amendment; public school financing; public utilities legislation; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 24/06/1975
MILLER, Gerald E. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLER, Gerald E. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0954
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to USS Richmond; Komandorski Island action; Aleutians Campaign; post World War II naval career.
Date of Interview: 03/05/1993
MILLER, Hamilton S. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLER, Hamilton S. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0569
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Farragut during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/05/1982
MILLER, John (b. 1905)
MILLER, John (b. 1905)
Interview ID: OH 0124
Judge (36th Judicial District of Texas). His observations on the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1940-70. Criminal offenses in Aransas County; justices of the peace; appointment of county commissioners; selection of grand jurors; comments about Governors Dan Moody, James Allred, Allan Shivers, and John Connally; South Texas politics in general; Johnson-Stevenson senatorial election of 1948.
Date of Interview: 05/01/1972
MILLER, John M. (b. 1905)
MILLER, John M. (b. 1905)
Interview ID: OH 1462
Pioneer aviator. His reminiscences from his career in aviation, 1920-63. Influence of the early aircraft designer Glenn Curtiss; his meeting with the aviatrix Ruth Law; influence of the book Aerobatics by Horatio Barber; his meeting with barnstorming pilot “Swanee” Taylor; Taylor’s gift of his aircraft to Miller; teaching himself to fly without formal instruction and his solo flight on December 15, 1923; college at Pratt Institute of Technology and graduation with a degree in mechanical engineering, 1927; meetings of aviators at a speakeasy, New York City, 1923-27; origins of the organization “Quiet Birdsmen”; obtaining his aircraft mechanic’s license, 1927; his eye-witness account of Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight , May 20, 1927; influence of Harold Stark’s “1-2-3 System”; employment with Gates Flying Circus, 1927-29; his career as a barnstormer, 1929; his joining the Marine Corps Reserve, 1929; comments about German pilot Ernst Udet; his cross-country flight in a Pitcairn autogiro, May 14-28, 1931; making 3,000 flights as an airmail pilot; employment for twenty-five years as a pilot for Eastern Airlines; employment as a test pilot for Columbia Aircraft Corporation during World War II; test work on the Grumman J2F-6 amphibian; comments about various aircraft he flew for Eastern.
Date of Interview: 10/05/2002
MILLER, Oscar (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLER, Oscar (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0406
His experiences while aboard the oiler USS Rampapo during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/12/1977
MILLMAN, Chester (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLMAN, Chester (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0465
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/12/1978
MILLS, Mitzi (b. 1949)
Anzea Textiles. Fort Worth TX.
MILLS, Mitzi (b. 1949)
Anzea Textiles. Fort Worth TX.Interview ID: OH 1994 Mills, Mitzi
Mitzi Mills is the President, co-owner, co-founder and creative director of Anzea Textiles located in Fort Worth, Texas. She and her partner Bruce Doeren founded the company in 1990 as a premier source for commercial, or “non-residential,” upholstery fabrics available for specifiers in the design industry. The Anzea story has been inspired by Mitzi’s longstanding sense of social justice and environmental responsibility and her background as a graphic designer. Since its beginning, Anzea has been unique in the North Texas region because of its business model. As a wholesaler and distributor, Anzea manages an international supply chain, controls pricing, and maintains an international sales force. Anzea also exerts total creative control over product offerings, custom product design, marketing, and branding making it a comprehensive, autonomous enterprise. In the early 2000’s Anzea became one of the select few contract textile houses to develop an exclusive collection of sustainable fabrics with the mill Rohner Textile AG, Switzerland, utilizing Rohner’s Climatex® fiber system. Anzea continues to source advanced fiber technologies and introduce environmentally-conscious products. The company was instrumental in crafting the Facts Sustainability Certification (NSF/ANSI 336-2011 Standard) for commercial textiles, and remains active in policy and regulatory issues that apply to contract textile specification and use. The Anzea Environmental Statement expresses core company values and embraces suppliers that share the company’s mission.
Date of Interview: 07/03/2019
MILTON, Gen. T. R. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran; U.S. Air Force General.
MILTON, Gen. T. R. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran; U.S. Air Force General.Interview ID: OH 1678
Retired U.S. Air Force general and former commander of Thirteenth Air Force. Thoughts on command and leadership; opinions of various commanders; opinions regarding USAF traditions as compared to those of other services, including discussions of uniforms and force cohesiveness; concerns regarding U.S. Air Force Academy, force organization, and command structure; opinions regarding Gen. Curtis LeMay and other Air Force chiefs of staff; combat experience in European Theater of World War II; opinions regarding Air Force execution of various Cold War policies.
Date of Interview: 11/10/2006 to 16/03/2007
MINOR, Fred H. (b. 1890)
Texas House of Representatives.
MINOR, Fred H. (b. 1890)
Texas House of Representatives.Interview ID: OH 0001
Attorney, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. His experiences as a member of the Texas House of Representatives and Speaker of the House, 1931-33. Funding for highway construction; philosophy concerning functions of Speaker of the House
Date of Interview: 10/12/1964
Interview ID: OH 0172
His experiences while serving in the Texas Legislature during the 1930s. Comments about Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, and Miriam and James Ferguson; his term as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Date of Interview: 13/11/1973
MINSHEW, Cecil T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
MINSHEW, Cecil T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0597
Member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1942; shipbuilding at Nagasaki, 1943-44; Orio, Kyushu, 1944-45; liberation; Nagasaki after dropping the A-bomb.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1983
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