Interview ID: OH 0222
Her experiences at the Schofield Barracks hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/07/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0650
Judge (211th district Court, Denton County, Texas). His recollections concerning the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 30/05/1984
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Interview ID: OHB 0007
A founder of Texas Instruments. Family, education, and work background; education and experiences in electrical engineering; work and training with General Electric; development of Spencer Thermostat; work with Raytheon and Charles V. Litton; joining Geophysical Research in Oklahoma; meeting J. Erik Jonsson and rising through Geophysical Research; associations with Eugene McDermott, Karchor, De Golyer, Erik Jonsson, Roland Beers, H. B. Peacock, Pat Haggerty, and others; World War II; diversification into civilian goods during 1950s; development of transistors; his presidency of GSI; formation of Texas Instruments; views of relationship between corporations and educational institutions; government regulations; economic climate in Texas; reasons for his personal success, Texas Instruments’ success.
Date of Interview: 10/03/1985
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Interview ID: OH 1630
Alumnus of North Texas State University. Experiences growing up with racial segregation in High, Texas; graduation from high school in 1959; initial decision to attend Paris Junior College and subsequent decision to attend North Texas beginning in 1961; campus life at North Texas, particularly involvement in Baptist Student Union; graduation with degree in art education; career as educator and as insurance agent in Dallas, Texas.
Date of Interview: 28/03/2007
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Interview ID: OH 0854
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Childhood in Memel, Lithuania; education; Nazi occupation of Memel, 1939; moving to Kovno, Lithuania, 1939; Russian occupation, 1940; German occupation and life in the Kovno Ghetto, 1941-43; transfer to Stutthof concentration camp, 1943; death of her mother and sister, 1945; liberation by Russian troops; emigration to the United States, 1947; reunion with her brother in Israel; lasting effects of the Holocaust.
Date of Interview: 02/01/1990
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Interview ID: OH 1719
Veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Childhood in rural northern Alabama; farm life during the Great Depression; decision to enter CCC at the age of fifteen; experiences at CCC camps at Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi, Florence, Oregon, and Rainier, Washington; memory of Pearl Harbor; wartime rejection from U.S. Army; postwar decision to join U.S. Air Force; career as an engine mechanic in Air Force and Navy; lessons learned in CCC and military.
Date of Interview: 02/08/2010
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Interview ID: OH 0182
Attorney. His experiences as the officer in charge of the liberation of American and other Allied prisoners-of-war in Japan at the end of World War II.
Date of Interview: 06/02/1974 to 01/03/1974
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Interview ID: OH 1593
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. African American resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of childhood in Robertson County, Texas, farming family; experience in one-room, all-black schoolhouse and E.A. Kemp High School; marriage to Roland Green and decision to move to Abilene, Texas; separation from Roland Green and decision to move with three young children to Cisco; work as a maid, factory worker, and nurse’s aide; children’s experiences in desegregating schools relationships with black and white communities in Cisco; decision to press a racial discrimination case against Eastland Healthcare; life in retirement.
Date of Interview: 11/10/2006
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Interview ID: OH 0531
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/12/1980
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Interview ID: OH 1015
Her experiences while employed by the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texarkana, Texas, during World War II. Hiring procedures and job assignments; relationships between male and female workers.
Date of Interview: 26/03/2993
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Interview ID: OH 1687
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Brandenburg an der Havel and Graudenz, Germany; escape to Berlin from advancing Soviet army in 1944, and again from Berlin to Bavaria in 1945; family’s experiences with occupying U.S. Army forces; marriage to an America GI; memories of first trip to U.S.; travel due to husband’s various deployments across U.S. and Germany; decision to settle in Weatherford; struggle to pass on German language and culture to children and grandchildren; family history.
Date of Interview: 02/11/2009
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Interview ID: OH 0230
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 16th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/07/1974
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Interview ID: OH 2003
For the Geezle Oral History Project. This interview traces the background of Alfred Edgar Greer from Snyder, TX, to his public school education in Decatur, TX. It continues with his two-years of study at Decatur Baptist College, where he starred for and captained the basketball team. It examines his continued academic pursuits at North Texas State College in public school administration (BS, 1951; MS, 1954) and his membership in the Geezle Fraternity. It concentrates on his short but intensive association with fellow Geezles and their shared values as he applied those values to a 36-year leadership and teaching career in public education in eight school districts in Texas. Most notably, Mr. Greer acknowledges how values permeated his life for an enriching profession, endearing marriage, and fulfilling life.
Date of Interview: 31/10/2019
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Interview ID: OH 0824
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 878 at Camp SCS-37-T in Waxahachie, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 14/02/1991
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Interview ID: OH 0069
Postal worker, 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; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 24/03/1971
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Interview ID: OH 1956
Gregory, Mike: In-flight Service Coordinator (attended first class for male flight attendants). 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: 21/09/2013
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Interview ID: OH 2058
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Adrienne Griffen is a postpartum depression policy advocate. She was a warmline volunteer for Postpartum Support International (PSI) mi the mid-2000s. Then she founded Postpartum Support Virginia (PSVa) in 2009, and served as executive director of the organization. In 2018 she founded the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance, which advocates for federal policy changes around maternal mental health issues. She discusses the Bringing Postpartum Depression Out of the Shadows Act of 2015, the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021, and the Into the Light for Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Act of 2022.
Date of Interview: 12/08/2022
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Interview ID: OHB 0094
Founder of Uvalde Producers Feed and Elevator, Inc., Uvalde, Texas. Family background; farming and education near Weslaco, Texas; employment with Texas A&M Extension Service; experiences during Depression in College Station, Texas; assignment as county agricultural agent for Jones and Brown Counties; employment with Quaker Oats Company developing feed, 1948; purchase of Uvalde Producers Wool-Mohair, 1952; description of wool and mohair business; split of operation into feed and grain business and wool and mohair business; merger with Dolph Briscoe’s wool and mohair business; sale of wool and mohair business, 1970; comments on goat raising near Uvalde and problems with predators; storage and sale of corn, milo, and wheat; purchase of grain elevator, Knippa, Texas; comments on sons’ management of feed and grain business; involvement in buying and selling grain, soybeans, and guar beans; volume of sales in feed and grain business; reasons for decrease in grain sales; personnel and equipment requirements for grain business; financing of company; comments about John Nance Garner as banker; description of organizational structure; views on competition in grain business; comments on credit business; farming in Batesville, Texas; trade association and civic activities; educational advice for students of business.
Date of Interview: 12/07/1984
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Interview ID: OHB 0076
Owner and operator, R & R Motor Supply, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; comments concerning work on Will Evers’s pecan farm and hiring out to pick cotton, Denton; employment in Bailey Mullins’s machine shop and auto parts store, 1935; description of merchandise and prices; employment with Public Construction Company building defense installations in Texas and Oklahoma, 1942; purchase interest in R & R Motor Supply, 1944; comments on location of store suppliers; interactions between machine shop and parts shop; description of sales volume and distribution area; comments on personnel and financing of business; views on incorporation and expansion into Lewisville and McKinney; discussion of insurance requirements and experiences with OSHA regulators; comments on trade associations; civic activities; description of typical working day; factors in building a successful business; comments on Denton competitors; views on providing credit business; business relationship with brother, Owen; comments on raising quarter horses, Argyle; discussion of involvement in power boat racing and winning national championship, 1940s; comments on percentage of large accounts in business.
Date of Interview: 11/12/1982
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Interview ID: OH 1823
Former Black Panther and long-time civil rights advocate. Family history; childhood in Fort Worth; life during segregation; process of integration; Civil Rights Act; changes in urban demographics; generation differences in living under segregation; civil rights participation; military service; Black Panther Party participation; March 1972 bank robbery and kidnapping; imprisonment in Marion, Illinois; life after release; black history in the American consciousness.
Date of Interview: 31/01/2014
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Interview ID: OH 0715
Educator. His experiences concerning the integration of the Hamilton Park, Texas, school and the establishment of the Pacesetter program. His employment at the Hamilton Park School; federal desegregation suits; activities of Hamilton Park Civic League; decision to establish Pacesetter; fate of black teachers; PTA activities.
Date of Interview: 19/11/1987
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Interview ID: OHB 0075
Owner of auto repair business, Denton, Texas. Family background; experiences moving from Georgia to Texas, 1919; description of work and education near Homer and Royston, Georgia; description of Denton, 1919; employment with Acme Brick; part-time work as auto mechanic and work in will Evers’s pecan Orchard, 1922; full-time employment as auto mechanic for Sid Smith, 1924; description of auto dealerships and repair shops in Denton; experiences working for Hopper and Blackburn, 1935-38; comments about North Texas State president William Bruce; comments about W. R. Lakey’s concrete company; opens auto repair business, 1938; comments on personnel; experiences teaching industrial arts courses at North Texas Lab School and with out of school youth (OSY) program at Denton High School; description of effects of Depression in Denton; work for Harris and Koenig Hardware store, 1920s; experiences demonstrating farm equipment; credit practices for auto repair business; comments on cooperation among auto mechanics in Denton; description of auto repair equipment improvements; sale of business, 1968; civic activities; changes in Denton since 1920s.
Date of Interview: 15/11/1982
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Interview ID: OH 1251
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 708 at Camp Rabideau in Blackduck, Minnesota; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 11/06/1998
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Interview ID: OHB 0077
Owner and operator, Griffith’s Independent Ginner, Weinert, Texas. Family background; education in Texola, Oklahoma; part-time employment as cotton picker; involvement in building cotton gins and operating drug stores, West Texas, 1920s; operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, Weinert, Texas, 1927; comments on buying cotton and retaining cotton seed; variations in cotton prices; comments on Depression in Weinert; sale of coal to farmers; buying grain for Kimball Milling Company during off-season; description of dry land farming; reasons for decrease of cotton gins; use for cotton burrs and seed hulls; sale of cotton gin business, 1946; operation of gins in Sherman, Texas and grain department in Woodward, Oklahoma for Kimball Milling Company; comments on Weinert cotton gin personnel; significant changes in cotton ginning business during thirty years; explanation of ginning procedure; civic and trade association activities.
Date of Interview: 04/11/1982
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Interview ID: OH 1176
Business executive. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Tirante in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; his training as an electrician’s mate; qualification examination; assignment to the Tirante, 1945; various patrols around the Japanese home islands.
Date of Interview: 09/05/1996
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Interview ID: OH 1701
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Family history; Parker County farming history; childhood and education in Weatherford; Depression-era struggles; enlistment in U.S. Navy; World War II service; studies at Weatherford College, Duke University, and Duke Law; legal career with FBI, in private practice in Weatherford, and as Parker County District Attorney; career as land developer; political career on Weatherford City Council and Weatherford College Board of Regents; involvement in state party politics; integration of Weatherford schools.
Date of Interview: 16/03/2010
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Interview ID: OH 0183
Civil servant. His experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/04/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0177
His experiences while employed by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 06/04/1974
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Interview ID: OH 1663
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Cold War-era Air Force veteran. Childhood in El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona; memories of Great Depression and World War II; father’s service in World War I; decision to attend University of Arizona and enter the U.S. Air Force ROTC program; assignment to Lackland AFB; training in navigation and aircraft performance engineering for B-36 and KB-29 air refueling aircraft crews; retraining in electronic countermeasures; assignment to B-52 wing at Castle AFB, California; airborne alert missions; tensions of Cuban Missile Crisis; air-sampling missions; assignment to U.S. Air University and thesis on subject of the so-called “missile gap”; assignment to an SR-71 reconnaissance unit; deployment to Kadena Air Base during Vietnam War; belief that U.S. policy in Cold War succeeded in preventing other wars; retirement to Fort Worth.
Date of Interview: 18/10/2007
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Interview ID: OH 1795
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Simple life advocate. Childhood in New Jersey; family losses; discovery of the Nearings and the simple life; memories of Scott and Helen Nearing; the Good Life Center.
Date of Interview: 14/07/2014
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Interview ID: OH 0908
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in West Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Lubbock, Texas; transfer to Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1993
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Interview ID: OH 0116
Governor of Guam, 1963-72. His experiences as secretary of Guam during the governorship of Bill Daniel; economic and educational development of Guam; congressional bill for the establishment of an elective governorship for Guam.
Date of Interview: 11/09/1968
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Interview ID: OH 0471
Her experiences at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/12/1978
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Interview ID: OH 0133
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; coal mining at Histashi, Honshu, 1944; copper mining at Ashio; Niigata, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 20/06/1972
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Interview ID: OH 0758
His experiences while aboard the hydrographic vessel USS Sumner during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/02/1989
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Interview ID: OH 1902
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; Fort Smith black community and interracial relations; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; educational and professional background; civil rights groups; contemporary race relations.
Date of Interview: 01/03/2017
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Interview ID: OH 0737
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Decision to join the Fellowship; conditions in the African-American section of Denton; early Fellowship meetings; desegregation of public facilities; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; Fred Moore Day School; desegregation of public schools; evolving nature of the Fellowship in the 1970s; Denton Christian Preschool; lasting friendships; defeat of urban renewal referendums; thoughts on lasting contributions of the Fellowship.
Date of Interview: 11/05/1988
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Interview ID: OH 1087
Laborer. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 818 in the Grand Canyon, Arizona; transfer to Company 807; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 05/10/1995
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Interview ID: OH 0639
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with Headquarters Company, 65th Engineers, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/05/1984
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Interview ID: OH 1722
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, owner of Javier’s Gourmet Mexicano, a restaurant in Dallas. Childhood in Mexico City; how Mexico City has changed since he lived there; why his family decided to come to the U.S. and Dallas; his experiences adapting to American culture; goals in life; starting a business in Dallas; goals for the restaurant; the importance of Mexican culture; his aunt’s kidnapping in Mexico City; views on the illegal immigration debate; views on recent immigration to the D/FW area; opinion of Arizona law S.B. 1070.
Date of Interview: 18/03/2011
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Interview ID: OH 0905
Her experiences and thoughts concerning the development of the Republican Party in Texas. Activities in state and local Republican election campaigns; Religious Right; abortion; Eagle Forum; National Organization of Women.
Date of Interview: 12/04/1993
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Interview ID: OH 1741
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Vietnamese-born immigrant to Dallas and UNT graduate student. Birth and childhood in Tam Ky, Vietnam; Vietnamese family life; memories of the Vietnam War; American involvement in Vietnam; memory of the fall of Saigon and the North Vietnamese invasion; experience as a refugee in 1975; American treatment of Vietnamese refugees; father’s time in the Communist reeducation camps after his capture; discussion of comparison between Vietnamese reeducation camps and Nazi concentration camps; Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; getting sponsorship to come to Dallas; the family’s goals in coming to the United States; how Americans welcomed he and his family; adjustment to life in the United States; the experiences of the “boat people” in 1979; religion; maintaining Vietnamese traditions in the United States; returning to Vietnam to visit family; how Vietnam has changed; effects of the Communist government on the development of Vietnam since the war; experience with brain cancer; undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin; medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; experiences as a graduate student at the University of North Texas; future goals; lasting effects of the refugee experience on Vietnamese immigrants; the Vietnamese community in the D/FW area; impressions of the younger generation of Vietnamese Americans that were born in the United States; lessons to be learned from the Vietnam War.
Date of Interview: 27/04/2011
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Interview ID: OH 1366
Educator. Her recollections of Drs. Margaret Griffin and Rose Spicola, long-time reading professors at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Griffin as her thesis and dissertation advisor; comments about the Fall Forum; classes with Spicola; the role of Griffin and Spicola in establishing the doctoral-level reading program at Texas Woman’s University; Griffin’s and Spicola’s teaching styles and methods.
Date of Interview: 14/10/2000
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Interview ID: OH 1848
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Film producer, web designer, and longtime Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; coming out; LGBT Dallas history; LGBT activism; AIDS crisis in Dallas; current work in web design and marketing; current activism; Cathedral of Hope.
Date of Interview: 15/04/2012
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Interview ID: OHB 0017
Founder and manager of Hadlock and Fox Saddletree Manufacturing Company, Gruene, Texas. Family background, education; early work experiences in blacksmithing, saddletree making in Utah; Depression; early saddletree making methods and equipment; founding of Standard Saddletree Company in Utah with Fox; move to Texas; founding of Hadlock and Fox; start of tannery, retail store, saddle making; largest quality saddletree maker in U.S.; description of saddletree making, tanning, saddle making; sources of materials, markets; entry into plastic trees; splitting business, with Fox taking Utah (Standard) and Hadlock taking Texas (H-F); family involvement in business.
Date of Interview: 17/05/1978
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Interview ID: OH 1270
Psychologist. His experiences in clinical psychology and behavioral medicine.
Date of Interview: 03/08/1998
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Interview ID: OH 1144
His experiences as a crew member of a B-24 in the European Theater during World War II. Stateside training; raid to Kiel, Germany; raid to Oschersleben, Germany; other raids.
Date of Interview: 22/09/1996
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Interview ID: OH 1361
Businessman, builder. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war youth in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; effects of the Great Depression; employment at the York Ice Machine Company and making battleship gun turrets; induction into the Army, December, 1942; basic training, Camp Adair, Oregon, with the 104th Infantry Division, 1942-43; artillery school, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1943; stateside maneuvers, 1943-44; Camp Carson, Colorado, 1944; convoy from the United States to France, 1944; providing artillery support for the Canadian 1st Army in Holland, 1944; German counter-battery fire; Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; Ruhr Pocket, 1945; his wounds resulting from his vehicle hitting a mine near Remagen, Germany, March 25, 1945; hospitalization and recuperation; his return to the States and his thoughts about participating in the invasion of the Japanese home islands with the 104th Infantry Division; his comments about the seven Hake brothers seeing combat during World War II; postwar adjustments and comments about life in Wrightsville.
Date of Interview: 09/08/2000
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Interview ID: OH 0122
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war duty at International Settlement, Shanghai, with 4th Marines; fall of Corregidor and capture; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Clark Field, 1943-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; American air raids; Yokohama and Kawasaki, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 21/03/1972 to 18/04/1972
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Interview ID: OH 0013
Attorney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi, Democrat. His experiences from his career as a member of the Texas Legislature (1939-40; 1953-62; 1964-67). Biographical information and decision to enter politics; influence of lobbyists; revenue legislation; changes in House rules; evolution of House membership; comments about Governor John Connally, Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, and Speaker Ben Barnes; comments about former governors Allen Shivers and Price Daniels; one-year versus two-year budget; position on annual legislative sessions; constitutional revision; higher education.
Date of Interview: 19/12/1967
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Interview ID: OH 0031
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature. Revenue legislation; reform of liquor laws; changes in House rules.
Date of Interview: 29/08/1968
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Interview ID: OH 0071
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-First Legislature. One-year versus two-year budget; comments about Governor Preston smith and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes; revenue bills; corporate income tax; welfare legislation; state minimum wage law; education legislation; creation of new four-year colleges; beer and liquor lobby; changes in state sales tax base; personal legislation; redistricting under “one-man, one-vote” U.S. Supreme court decision.
Date of Interview: 16/10/1970
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Interview ID: OH 0108
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation
Date of Interview: 24/06/1971
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Interview ID: OH 0217
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular Session of the Sixty-third Texas Legislature. Reform legislation; appropriations; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 30/09/1973
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Interview ID: OH 0277
His experiences and personal views while serving as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention, 1974. Need for constitutional revision; Constitutional Revision Commission; Joint Constitutional Convention Planning Committee; Price Daniel, Jr., as chairman of the Constitutional Convention; Judiciary Committee; right-to-work provision; failure of the Constitutional Convention.
Date of Interview: 20/12/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0302
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. House speakership race; appropriations; committee appointments; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 03/09/1975
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Interview ID: OH 0442
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Budget surplus; highway appropriations; teacher retirement bill; Texas Monthly’s ratings of legislators; public school financing; ad valorem taxation; Peveto Bill.
Date of Interview: 12/07/1977
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Interview ID: OH 1639
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill and longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Early childhood and education in McKinney; father’s work in the mill; duties as a doffer in the mill’s spinning room; union involvement; World War II service; playing career with the Textile Millers, mill-sponsored baseball team.
Date of Interview: 20/11/2006
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Interview ID: OH 1662
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Iraq War veteran. Childhood Childhood in Irving and Waxahachie, Tex.; decision to enlist in U.S. Navy; military service of father and twin brother; assignment to USS Tarawa; service in humanitarian missions in Western Pacific and Operation Desert Storm; education after leaving Navy; re-enlistment in U.S. Army; assignment to 328th Personal Services Battalion and 350th Postal Company; deployment to Kuwait and Northern Iraq; dissatisfaction with chain of command; need for post-deployment counseling; career as an author; opinions regarding value of military service.
Date of Interview: 01/12/2007
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Interview ID: OH 1090
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp F-15-C in Minturn, Colorado; company move to Camp SP-3-A in Phoenix, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 31/10/1995
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Interview ID: OH 1334
Advertising executive. His experiences as a P-47 Thunderbolt pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; primary flight training, Fort Stockton, Texas, 1943; basic flight training, Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Texas, 1943; advanced flight training, Foster Field, Victoria, Texas, 1943; fighter pilot training in the P-47, Pocatello, Idaho, 1944; his voyage across the Atlantic to England, January, 1945; assignment to the 36th Fighter Group at Le Culot, Belgium, February, 1945; his first mission; his description of ground-air radio communications (Air Support Party); problems with target identification; interdiction of German communications and troop movements; German flak, flak traps, and flak trains; his description of the characteristics and capabilities of the P-47; bomber escort duty during the crossings of the Rhine River, March, 1945; aerial combat around the Remagen Bridge; his destroying a ME-163 on the ground; crash landings; development of the fighter-bomber concept; skip-bombing techniques; tank-busting techniques; occupation duty in postwar Germany; his postwar education and career.
Date of Interview: 10/11/1999
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Interview ID: OH 0840
Musician, college professor. His reflections and personal role in establishing the jazz studies program in the College of Music at North Texas State College. Early music career; student days at North Texas; graduate studies at New York University; establishing the jazz studies program; organizing the Lab Bands; Kenton Clinics; his experiences at Michigan State University, College of The Desert, and Stephen F. Austin State University; his role in the founding of the National Association of Jazz Studies; his teaching methods; personal theories and concepts of jazz; comments about deans of the North Texas College of Music; relations with University administrators.
Date of Interview: 09/02/1991 to 14/02/1991, 18/02/1991 to 19/02/1991
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Interview ID: OH 0036
Attorney, former county judge, businessman, member of the Texas Senate from Rockwall, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Legislature.
Date of Interview: 04/01/1968
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Interview ID: OH 0160
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Legislatures. One-year versus two-year budget; tax legislation; University of Texas at Dallas; teacher pay raise; anti-riot legislation; state sales tax; “grocery tax”; destination tax; comments about Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes; deficit financing; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; ethics legislation; redistricting; his campaign for the office of lieutenant governor; comments about Governor Preston Smith.
Date of Interview: 17/01/1970 to 02/07/1971
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Interview ID: OH 0514
Dairyman, educator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Election victory; political philosophy; his constituency; comments about Governor William Clements, Speaker Bill Clayton; committee assignments; consumer legislation; interest rates; activities on State Affairs Committee; appropriations; tax relief; Peveto Bill; initiative-referendum; personal legislation
Date of Interview: 13/08/1979
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Interview ID: OH 0618
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-eighth Legislature. Speaker Gib Lewis and financial disclosure; appointment to the Appropriations Committee; appropriations and taxes; comments about Governor Mark White; teacher pay; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 21/11/1983
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Interview ID: OH 0532
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/12/1980
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Interview ID: OH 1250
Businessman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Navigator training in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas; assignment to Saipan, 1944; his B-29 shot down over Tokyo, January, 1945; capture and interrogation by Japanese army personnel; beatings and torture; solitary confinement in Tokyo at the "The Stables"; Tokyo fire bomb raid of March 10, 1945; interrogation, beatings, and torture by Kempei-tai; transfer to Omori camp; liberation in August, 1945; postwar psychological problems and adjustments.
Date of Interview: 15/03/1998
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Interview ID: OH 1910
U.S. Air Force veteran. Trained with the Royal Air Force and was a pilot during the Berlin Airlift. Stationed in Tempelhof. Children’s reaction to the parachutes. Commander at Tempelhof.
Date of Interview: 21/03/2016
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Interview ID: OH 1469
Agricultural specialist. His experiences as a radar technician in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His prewar education; decision to enlist in the Marine Corps, 1942; boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, 1942; radar school at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 1942-43; primary radar training at Grove City, Pennsylvania, 1943; secondary radar training at Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1943; assignment to VMB-433, Peterfield Point, North Carolina, 1943; radar operation aboard the PBJ (B-25) medium bomber; training at Naval Air Station, El Centro, California, 1944; voyage across the Pacific to Espritu Santo, May, 1944; assignment to Emirau, August, 1944; living conditions on Emirau; his role in the maintenance of radar equipment; off-duty activities; end of the war and his return to college; his postwar career with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Date of Interview: 27/09/2002
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Interview ID: OH 1352
Attorney. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war education, particularly at Culver Military Academy; his decision to enter the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; assignment to the 67th College Training Detachment, Ouachita Baptist College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 1943; assignment to the Aviation Cadet Classification and Preflight Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; pre-flight training, Aviation Cadet Center, San Antonio, 1943; primary flight training, Corsicana, Texas, 1943-44; basic flight training, Majors Field, Greenville, Texas, 1944; advanced flight training, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, 1944; assignment to the combat replacement and training center, Nadzab, New Guinea, 1944; voluntary assignment to the 63rd Bomb Squadron, Tacloban, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 1944; his accounts of various “snooper” night missions in B-24s to interdict Japanese shipping and supply facilities along the China coast, 1944-45; transfer of the squadron to Clark Field, Manila, Luzon, 1945; his memorable mission to Ulin Harbor, Hainan Island, March 31, 1945; his transfer to the 49th Fighter Group and transition to the P-38 Lightning; P-38 training at Nadzab; assignment to the 7th Fighter Squadron and ground-support missions on Luzon; preparations for the invasion of Japan; transfer to Okinawa, August, 1945; his eye-witness description of Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb; surveillance missions over Japan after the surrender; lasting effects of his experiences in World War II.
Date of Interview: 14/12/1999
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Interview ID: OH 0192
His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/04/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0354
Realtor. His experiences as an ordnance man at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/12/1976
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Interview ID: OH 1494
A personal written account of his experiences in the European Theater during World War II, entitled “Third Reich Finale as Witnessed by John L. Hancock, 259th Field Artillery Battalion.” Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; Battle for the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, 1945; Buchenwald Concentration Camp; temporary occupation duty in Germany, 1945; mustering out of the service, 1945.
Date of Interview: 06/01/1981
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Interview ID: OH 1709
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Coquilla, Oregon, Ketchikan, Alaska, and Hayward and San Francisco, California; family’s difficulties in the Great Depression; work as a shoeshine boy and newspaper delivery boy; father’s work with the WPA; expulsion from school; move to Los Angeles and graduation from high school; hitchhiking; memory of Pearl Harbor attack; enlistment in Army Air Corps; brother’s combat death; feelings toward Japanese, Germans, and Italians; pilot training in Colorado, Kansas, and Texas; assignment to 445th Bomber Squadron, 321st Bomb Group in Mediterranean Theater; description of bombing missions; V-E Day celebrations; World War II as “life-defining moment”; return to civilian life then return to service during Korean War; work as a professional pilot trainer and test pilot; career with federal agencies, including Housing and Urban Development, Resolution Trust Corporation, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; work as member of Orange, Texas, school board; volunteer work.
Date of Interview: 17/12/2007
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Interview ID: OH 1294
His experiences as a Navy chaplain in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early career in the ministry; the coming of war and his decision to join the Chaplain Corps; Navy Chaplaincy School, Norfolk, Virginia, 1942; stateside duties, Cherry Point, North Carolina, and Bunker Hill, Indiana, 1942-43; his views of a chaplain’s role and responsibilities; assignment to the seaplane tender USS Wright, 1943; activities as the Wright’s morale officer; operations around Espiritu Santo, 1943-44; activities around Kolombangara and Bougainville, 1943-44; conversion of the Wright as a flagship for the 7th Fleet, 1944; rest and recuperation activities for the ship’s crew; Philippine operations, 1944-45; return to the U.S., 1945; postwar adjustments to civilian life.
Date of Interview: 07/03/1998
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Interview ID: OH 1335
Aeronautical engineer. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Enrollment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; basic training at Boca Raton, Florida, 1943; Yale University Technical School, 1943; his selection for training as a flight engineer; Boeing Flight Engineer School, Seattle, Washington, 1944; B-29 Flight Engineering School, Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado, 1944; his assignment to the 504th Bomb Group, August, 1944; establishment of crew integrity, August-November, 1944; mechanical characteristics of the B-29; his stationing at Tinian, Marianas, January 12, 1945; training missions to Iwo Jima, Truk, Aguijan, and Pagan Islands; mission to Kobe, Japan; effects of the jet stream on bombing accuracy; low-level fire bomb missions to Tokyo, Japan, March 9, 1945; other fire bomb raids to Nagoya and Osaka, Japan, March, 1945; the shooting down of his plane and the capture of the survivors, March 28, 1945; his classification as a "special prisoner" (war criminal) by the Kempei-tai; interrogation by the Japanese military; threats from Japanese civilians; incarceration at Kempei-tai headquarters in Tokyo; prison conditions and continued interrogation and torture; American air raids; transfer to Omori, Japan, August 15, 1945; liberation and medical treatment; postwar psychological adjustments.
Date of Interview: 13/10/1999
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Interview ID: OH 0200
His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Rigel during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/05/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0424
His experiences as an ordnance man at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/06/1978
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Interview ID: OH 0510
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; Singapore, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 26/03/1980
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Interview ID: OH 0728
Homemaker, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early experiences in segregated society; segregation and racism in Denton, Texas; early meetings of the Fellowship; social activities of the Fellowship; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; urban renewal; integration of neighborhoods; desegregation of Denton public schools; tutoring program; desegregation of public facilities in Denton; political activities.
Date of Interview: 07/04/1988
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Interview ID: OHB 0048
Owner and operator, Jim Hardin’s Paint and Wallcovering, Denton, Texas. Family background; employment with Esler paint and Paper Company, Denison; promotion to assistant manager and outside salesman; effects of Depression in Denison; comments on union activities in Denison; military service in World War II; experiences in hanging wallcovering; employment at Jack Hodges’s Paint store, Denton, 1953; purchase of business from Hodges; views on Dallas competition; comments on development of paint components; views on organization of KEM Institute to promote latex paint; comments on the development of wallcovering; business orientation toward homeowner; pricing changes in paint and wallcovering; outlet for Pittsburgh paint products; growth of business; family employees; description of advertising; views on credit business; factors in developing successful operation; work in trade associations; advantages of family-operated business.
Date of Interview: 31/01/1981
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Interview ID: OH 0524
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/12/1980
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Interview ID: OH 1231
Engineer. His experiences while aboard the light cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/03/1998
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Interview ID: OH 0663
Executive. Education and early work experience; employment with standard oil of California; early marketing experience; OPA Advisory Committee, 1942-46; postwar domestic marketing strategies; transfer to Caltex, 1957; establishing Caltex (Germany) markets; construction of Frankfurt refinery; decision to leave Caltex, 1963.
Date of Interview: 14/09/1985
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Interview ID: OH 1263
His experiences as a radioman aboard a B-26 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in 1940 and stateside training; assignment to the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron; antisubmarine patrols off the West Coast of the U. S. in early 1942; trans- Pacific island hopping from Hawaii to Australia, 1942; bombing and reconnaissance missions out of Townsville, Australia; aerial combat over New Guinea; attacks on Japanese shipping and ground-support missions around Buna; awarding of the Distinguished Flying Cross to his crew; return to the U. S. in 1943 after thirty-one missions; gunnery school, Fort Myers, Florida; radio instruction, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Date of Interview: 12/08/1998
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Interview ID: OH 1023
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Hutto, Texas and Pflugerville, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3809 at Camp SCS-6-T in Pflugerville, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 27/01/1994
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Interview ID: OH 1268
Factory worker. His experiences as a civilian defense worker at Philadelphia Gear Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II. Growing up in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; effect of the Great Depression on family life; attendance at Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, Media, Pennsylvania for training as a patternmaker; employment at Philadelphia Gear Works as a layout man and machinist; conversion from peacetime to wartime production during World War II; election as vice-president of the International Association of Machinists; union-management relationships during World War II at Philadelphia Gear Works; employment of women; overhaul of the USS Washington; return to Wrightsville to work at Riverside Foundry in 1945; production of hand grenades and rifle grenades; management-union relationships at Riverside Foundry; conversion to civilian product manufacturing at war’s end.
Date of Interview: 12/08/1996
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Interview ID: BOH 0069
President of Harpool’s Seed, Inc. and Harpool Fertilizer Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; farming in Hebron, Texas; move to Denton, 1928; father’s activities as cotton, grain, and wool buyer; employment at North Texas State Teachers College book bindery; purchase of cotton, wool, and seed business, 1942; education in Hebron and Denton; experiences at North Texas State Teachers College; experiences during Depression in Denton; comments on raising livestock in Denton; operation of Pedigreed Grain Association business; comments on financing of business; discussion of milo development; creation of Harpool’s Seed House, 1948; development of wholesale seed distribution business, 1958; construction of fertilizer bulk blend plant; advent of DDT and herbicides; development of wholesale farm and garden products business, 1962; expansion of wholesale business in Texas and Oklahoma; discussion of personnel practices; use of advertising; comments on government regulations; description of typical working day; factors involved in building a successful family business; comments on trade association and civic activities.
Date of Interview: 01/03/1982
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Interview ID: OH 0861
Librarian. Her experiences as a student in the library school at Texas State College For Women, Denton, Texas, during the late 1930s and early 1940s; her professional career as a librarian.
Date of Interview: 28/04/1992
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Interview ID: OH 0999
Her recollections about Texarkana, Texas, 1915-50. Education; local industries; church activities; social clubs and fraternal organizations; women’s issues.
Date of Interview: 12/03/1994
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Interview ID: OH 0666
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, 1942-44; Changi Jail, Singapore, 1944; various railroad camps in Sumatra, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 09/05/1985
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Interview ID: OH 1188
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1970-1971. Assignment to Chu Lai; temporary assignment to the 91st Evacuation Hospital at An Khe; TDY in Korea; combat experiences at An Khe and Da Nang; permanent assignment to Chu Lai; treatment of wounded troops; relationship between doctors and nurses; morale problems; recreation; treatment of wounded enemy soldiers; personal attitudes toward the war; return to the States on thirty-day leave; post-Vietnam adjustments.
Date of Interview: 05/07/1997
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Interview ID: OH 1534
His recollections of the military service of his four brothers during World War II. His youth on the family farm near Van Alstyne, Texas, in the 1930s; comments about his parents; his brother “Bud’s” military experiences with the 6th Infantry Division in the Southwest Pacific Theater (New Guinea and the Philippines); his brother Bailey’s experiences in the Aleutian Islands; his brother Troy’s military experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater; his brother “Louie’s” draft deferment for doing farm work; his brother “Rube’s” military experiences doing stateside duty ; the effects of wartime military service on his brothers after the war; his decision to quit school and join the Air Force at age fourteen (with a fake birth certificate) in 1946; his stationing to Okinawa, 1947; obtaining a hardship discharge from the Air Force after his father’s death, 1947.
Date of Interview: 18/09/2003
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Interview ID: OH 0042
Attorney, member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Republican. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. Biographical information; decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; one-year budget versus two-year budget; revenue legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes; welfare legislation; state minimum wage law; University of Texas at Dallas.
Date of Interview: 05/11/1969
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Interview ID: OH 0089
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown Stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 06/07/1971
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Interview ID: OH 0167
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Legislature. Freshman senators; comments about Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; committee appointments; reform legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 29/06/1973
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Interview ID: OH 0275
His experiences and personal views while serving as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention, 1974. Need for constitutional revision; Price Daniel, Jr., as chairman of the Constitutional Convention; Finance Committee; right-to-work provision; failure of Constitutional Convention.
Date of Interview: 23/12/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0295
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 11/08/1975
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Interview ID: OH 0480
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Texas Legislature. Influence of Proposition 13 in California; opposition to special session; repeal of sales tax on utility bills; modification of inheritance tax exemptions; ad valorem tax; agricultural land; initiative referendum; Peveto Bill; comments about the gubernatorial campaign of William Clements.
Date of Interview: 27/11/1978
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