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HARRIS, O. H. (b. 1932)
Texas Senate. Republican.
HARRIS, O. H. (b. 1932)
Texas Senate. Republican.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
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
Interview ID: OH 0493
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Relationship with Governor William Clements; appropriations; Budget Execution Act; consumer legislation; Peveto Bill; public school financing; comments about “Killer Bees”; separate presidential primaries.
Date of Interview: 07/09/1979
HARRIS, William (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HARRIS, William (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0208
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 19/05/1974
HARRISON, Eugene D. (b. 1909)
HARRISON, Eugene D. (b. 1909)
Interview ID: OH 1247
Auto mechanic His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Alvarado, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3804 at Camp SP-53-T near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 12/08/1998
HARRISON, Patti (b. 1929)
HARRISON, Patti (b. 1929)
Interview ID: OHB 0052
A founder of Spectra Biologicals of New Brunswick, N.J., and Nuclear Medical Labs of Dallas, Texas. Family background; employment at Wadley Blood Center, Dallas, and Herman Hospital, Houston: founding of Spectra Biologicals, 1961; innovations in blood typing serum products; involvement as salesperson for Texas and Louisiana territory; sale of company to Becton-Dickenson, 1966; comments on corporate takeover and management; founding of Nuclear Medical Labs, 1969; factors in successful development of company; sale of company to Warner Lambert, 1976; establishment of improvisational theater in Houston and fast food restaurant in Wimberly; ownership of truss building business in Houston, 1979; views on corporate management; comments on women in business.
Date of Interview: 19/05/1981
HART, Weldon (b. 1909)
HART, Weldon (b. 1909)
Interview ID: OH 0009
Public relations executive, executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. His experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment Commission; organization of a Texas political machine; lobbying for the highway construction industries of Texas.
Date of Interview: 08/08/1966 to 06/02/1967, 03/07/1967
HARTMAN, Cathy Nelson (b. 1945)
HARTMAN, Cathy Nelson (b. 1945)
Interview ID: OH 1849
Retired Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas. Childhood in east Texas; education and work history; move to librarianship; changes at UNT over the years; work at UNT Libraries; move to digital libraries; creation of UNT’s digital repository and the Portal to Texas History; logistics of creating a digital library; international growth of digital libraries.
Date of Interview: 07/12/2015
HATCHER, Carl (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HATCHER, Carl (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0196
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Assembly and Repair Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 19/05/1974
HATCHER, Jean Elizabeth Sheppard (b. 1924)
U.S. Coast Guard SPARS WWII Veteran.
HATCHER, Jean Elizabeth Sheppard (b. 1924)
U.S. Coast Guard SPARS WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1680
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II-era veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserves (or SPARs). World War II-era veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserves (or SPARs). Childhood and education in Edwardsville, Virden, and Girard, Ill.; father’s experience in World War I; waitressing and clerical work following high school graduation; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to enlist in Coast Guard SPAR program in June 1944; clerical training at Palm Beach, Fla.; meeting future husband, Bill Hatcher, at USO Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.; assignment to USCG headquarters in Washington, D.C.; courtship; contraction of fibromyalgia and discharge from service; 1946 wedding; family history; involvement in Ridglea United Methodist Church in Fort Worth.
Date of Interview: 11/12/2008
HATCHER, William (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
HATCHER, William (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1681
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in rural Tenn.; family’s experiences in the Great Depression; decision to attend University of Tennessee-Knoxville and major in mechanical engineering; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to join U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in 1942; 1943 call-up; basic training at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia; instruction in engineering, communications, and radar repair at City College of New York and Chanute Field, Illinois; assignments to Truax Field, Wisconsin, and Boca Raton, Florida; meeting future wife, Jean E. Sheppard, at USO Club in West Palm Beach, Florida; transfer to B-29 unit and bases in Nebraska and Kansas; deployment to Guam with 29th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, March 1945; details of high-altitude radar repair work; aspects of daily life for American soldiers stationed in Guam; descriptions of devastation of Japan, including Hiroshima; transfer to base on Tinian; return to U.S. in February 1946; wedding; return to UT-Knoxville using GI Bill benefits; work at Oak Ridge; decision to transfer to University of New Mexico for Mrs. Hatcher’s health; career with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Convair Corp. of Fort Worth; family history; social life in Fort Worth.
Date of Interview: 04/12/2008
HAUGER, Patarica LeMay (b. 1928)
HAUGER, Patarica LeMay (b. 1928)
Interview ID: OH 1697
Younger sister of Gen. Curtis LeMay. Family history; Ohio farm life during the Great Depression; brother’s visits, including a fly-over in a B-36 aircraft; Lemay’s World War II service and work in the Pentagon thereafter; feelings about his vice-presidential bid as George Wallace’s running mate in 1968; perceptions of LeMay’s legacy.
Date of Interview: 26/02/2010
HAUGH, Grace I. (b. 1922)
HAUGH, Grace I. (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1367
Homemaker. Her experiences as the wife of a serviceman (William Haugh) who was in Europe during World War II. Her education and youth on the family farm; effects of the Great Depression on her family; effects of the Rural Electrification Administration on farm life; her marriage to William Haugh on October 4, 1941; birth of their first son on December 23, 1942; her husband’s induction into the Army on June 16, 1944, and birth of their second son on September 9, 1944; economic adjustments as a result of her husband’s entering the military; creation of family support systems; church activities to support servicemen; wartime rationing; her husband’s homecoming, November, 1945; postwar family adjustments.
Date of Interview: 04/11/2000
HAUGH, Mervin E. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. B Company. 1st Battalion. 2nd Armored Division.
HAUGH, Mervin E. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. B Company. 1st Battalion. 2nd Armored Division.Interview ID: OH 1298
His experiences as a tank commander in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Europe during World War II. Prewar induction and training, Fort Benning, Georgia; North Africa landings, November, 1942; his role as a tank commander; evolution of tank tactics; invasion of Sicily, July, 1943; transfer of 2nd Armored Division to England, December, 1943; preparations for Operation OVERLORD; combat against German tanks; Operation COBRA, July, 1944; action along the Siegfried Line and the West Wall; his functions as commander of a M3 Stuart tank; his battle wounds from small-arms fire; crossing the Rhine River and thrusts into Germany.
Date of Interview: 31/05/1999
HAUGH, William M. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. H Company. 137th Regiment. 35th Infantry Division.
HAUGH, William M. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. H Company. 137th Regiment. 35th Infantry Division.Interview ID: OH 1290
Foundry superintendent. His experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II. Educational background; youth on the family farm; employment as a patternmaker at Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1938; hand grenade production at Riverside Foundry; induction into the Army and basic training, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1943; troopship to Marseilles, France; assignment as a replacement to H Company, 137th Regiment, 35th Infantry Division; the Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 45; descriptions of close combat and winter living conditions; Rhineland Campaign, 1945; Ruhr Valley and the liberation of German towns; urban combat; liberation of concentration camps; end of the war and the sea voyage home; postwar adjustments to civilian life; career advancement at Riverside Foundry; decision to start his own foundry, H&H Castings, 1972.
Date of Interview: 12/01/1999
HAUSSER, C. G. (b. 1936)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.
HAUSSER, C. G. (b. 1936)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 0874
His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1970-71. Assignment to 12th Evacuation Hospital, Cu Chi; camp routine; treatment of battle wounds; morale; Viet Cong prisoners; communication with family; transfer to Quang Tri; stateside adjustments.
Date of Interview: 08/03/1992
HAVEL, William (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
HAVEL, William (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1026
His experiences as a corpsman at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/04/1994
HAVENHILL, Jessie “Jackye” Hall (b. *)
HAVENHILL, Jessie “Jackye” Hall (b. *)
Interview ID: OH 1651
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton resident. History of family farm at present-day intersection of I-35W and Bonnie Brae Ave.; farm’s connection to Belo family; details of dairy and grain farming operations; domestic life on the farm; local history; education at NTSC “lab school” and NTSC.
Date of Interview: 23/03/2008
HAYES, Marion (b. 1945)
HAYES, Marion (b. 1945)
Interview ID: OH 1829
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Author and LGBT activist. Family history; childhood in Corsicana, Texas; gay high school culture in the 1960s; horsemanship; Dallas Gay Rodeo; lesbian culture in the 1950s and 1960s; Dallas LGBT community; Circle of Friends; AIDS epidemic; LGBT night life; writing career.
Date of Interview: 24/03/2013
HAYES, Sam T. (b. 1913)
HAYES, Sam T. (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 0917
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Trinity County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Center, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 04/03/1993
HAYES, Tracy Achor (b. 1953)
HAYES, Tracy Achor (b. 1953)
Interview ID: OH 2053
Oral History interview with Tracy Achor Hayes, whose career as a fashion journalist covered the Dallas fashion industry and brought international fashion coverage to the metroplex. She was a long-time writer for Fashion!Dallas, part of the Dallas Morning News, helped found “FD Luxe” magazine, and also worked with Neiman-Marcus on The Book.
Date of Interview: 29/10/2020
HAYMAN, Thomas J. (b. 1914)
HAYMAN, Thomas J. (b. 1914)
Interview ID: OH 0807
Businessman. His role in the development of Hamilton Park, Texas, as a residential area for African Americans during the 1950s. His relationship with Carr P. Collins and Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company; formation of Associated Construction Company and construction of housing in Hamilton Park; role of Hoblitzelle Foundation in purchasing land for home-building sites; role of Jerome Crossman and Dallas Interracial Association; selection of house building plans; loan approvals.
Date of Interview: 04/12/1989
HAYNER, Richard (b. 1953)
HAYNER, Richard (b. 1953)
Interview ID: OH 1486
His recollections about the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969, and the hippie movement in North Texas. His youth as the son of a itinerant Methodist preacher in West Texas; difficulties with his father; his description of the hippie movement; influence of The Beatles; thoughts on the demise of the hippie movement; the role of drugs in the hippie subculture; his description of activities at the Texas International Pop Festival; importance of music to the hippie movement; security at the pop festival; relations between hippies and bikers at the pop festival; activities of “Wavy Gravy” and The Hog Farm at the pop festival; the free stage at the festival; description of various groups and performers at the pop festival; his views of the achievements and influences of the hippie movement.
Date of Interview: 01/03/2003
HAYNES, Abner (b. 1937)
HAYNES, Abner (b. 1937)
Interview ID: OH 0620
Businessman, former professional football player. His personal experiences as the first African-American athlete to integrate the previously all-white athletic program at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 31/05/1983 to 07/06/1983, 14/07/1983 to 15/05/1984, 16/05/1984 to 23/05/1984, 23/05/1984
HAYNES, Frederick E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. Headquarters. 28th Marine Regiment. 5th Marine Division.
HAYNES, Frederick E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. Headquarters. 28th Marine Regiment. 5th Marine Division.Interview ID: OH 1428
His experiences at Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background; his decision to enlist in the Marine Corps, 1941; Officer Candidate School, Quantico, Virginia, 1942; weapons and tactics instructor at Quantico, 1942-44; formation of the 5th Marine Division and his assignment to the 28th Marines, Camp Pendleton, San Diego, California, 1944; his role in amphibious training operations at Camp Pendleton and Hawaii, 1944-45; final preparations for the Iwo Jima assault; D-Day bombardment of Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945; the D-Day landings; the isolation and taking of Mount Suribachi; his description of the first flag raising on Mount Suribachi, February 23, 1945; the 28th Marines’ drive toward the north end of Iwo Jima; ground combat among caves and tunnels; combat casualties and combat stress; comments about the Japanese defenders; end of the Iwo Jima Campaign and preparations for the invasion of Japan.
Date of Interview: 19/09/2001
HAYNIE, John (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 76th Infantry Division.
HAYNIE, John (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 76th Infantry Division.Interview ID: OH 0838
Musician, university professor, trumpet instructor. His experiences concerning the development of the College of Music at the University of North Texas; his career as a trumpet player and instructor.
Date of Interview: 04/05/1990
Interview ID: OH 1555
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas during the Great Depression; his education in Cisco and Mexia, Texas; his early interest in the cornet and the influence of Robert L. Maddox; enrollment at Texas Tech, 1942; induction into the Army, May 20, 1943; assignment to the 76th Infantry Division Band, Fort Meade, Maryland; infantry training at Fort Meade, and Camp A.P. Hill, Virginia, 1943; specialized winter training, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, 1943-44; shipment to England, December, 1944; Battle of the Bulge and his transfer to the Military Police, January, 1945; various accounts of experiences while moving across Germany; improvising creature comforts; looting; guarding German POWs; end of the war and his transfer back to the band; his postwar career as a university professor of trumpet.
Date of Interview: 10/06/2004
HAZEN, Joseph (b. 1934)
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran.
HAZEN, Joseph (b. 1934)
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1761
For the Air America Oral History Project. Marine veteran and Air America fixed-wing pilot. Navy flight training; experiences in peace-time Marine Corps; flying for Air America; interaction with the “Customer;” interaction with the Hmong; various missions; transfer to Southern Air Transport; rumors about Air America; thoughts on U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
Date of Interview: 06/05/2013
HEALEY, Marie (b. 1914)
HEALEY, Marie (b. 1914)
Interview ID: OH 0866
Home economist. Her experiences as a vocational homemaking teacher with the National Youth Administration in Crockett, Texas, 1941, during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1992
HEATH, D. C. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HEATH, D. C. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0586
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Monaghan during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/12/1982
HEATH, Jim (b. 1927)
HEATH, Jim (b. 1927)
Interview ID: OH 1497
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Postal carrier. His experiences as a longtime resident of Denton County, Texas, 1927-2002.
Date of Interview: 25/02/2002
HEAVRIN, Keith (b.*)
HEAVRIN, Keith (b.*)
Interview ID: OH 1868
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; military experiences in Vietnam; love of the sea; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
Date of Interview: 31/07/2015
HECHLER, Ray (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
HECHLER, Ray (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1437
His experiences as a member of the Marine detachment on the light cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; also his experiences in the Solomon Islands Campaign and the amphibious assault on Peleliu Island. Enlistment in the Marine Corps, 1939; assignment to the Helena, December, 1939; his activities during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; his activities in the days immediately after the attack; transfer to the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and reassignment to the Solomon Islands, November, 1942; combat around Cape Gloucester, New Britain; his personal encounter with Colonel Eugene (“Chesty”) Puller; the Peleliu Campaign, September, 1944; his battle wound and evacuation; recuperation and return Stateside duty.
Date of Interview: 06/12/2001
HEGGINS, Charlye (b. 1933)
HEGGINS, Charlye (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 1798
For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Former Denton City Council member, community activist, and longtime Denton resident. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; teaching career in Dallas; marriage and move to Denton; three terms on Denton City Council; Civil Rights struggle; work for NAACP; Quakertown, future of Denton; family.
Date of Interview: 19/02/2013
HEIDARI, Ali H. (b. 1952)
HEIDARI, Ali H. (b. 1952)
Interview ID: OH 1730
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, restaurant owner and real estate investor. Coming to U.S. from Tehran, Iran; driving taxi cab and working in restaurants in Dallas; acquiring his restaurant “The Old Warsaw”; meeting his wife, having three daughters; decision to come to America; living in America during the Carter Administration; his parents’ thoughts about him leaving Iran; inadequacies of the American school system; three sisters still living in Iran; final thoughts on solutions to the problems with American schools.
Date of Interview: 20/04/2011
HEIMAN, Ginger (b. 1957)
HEIMAN, Ginger (b. 1957)
Interview ID: OH 2014
For the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Denison, Texas, and at Grayson College, Southern Oklahoma University, and UNT; career as a Certified Public Accountant; work with the UNT comptroller’s office and the UNT Foundation.
Date of Interview: 26/07/2012
HEINEN, J. B. (b. 1913)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
HEINEN, J. B. (b. 1913)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0174
Independent oilman, 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; liberation in Bangkok.
Date of Interview: 29/10/1973
Interview ID: OH 0213
His experiences as an Army officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 25/06/1974
HELDENFELS, James R. (b. 1914)
HELDENFELS, James R. (b. 1914)
Interview ID: OH 0129
Businessman. His experiences as a businessman in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1936-72. Business ventures of Heldenfels Brothers; shell dredging and conservation; banking interests; real estate interests; future industrial development.
Date of Interview: 05/01/1972
HELMER, Richard (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HELMER, Richard (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0237
His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender USS Tangier during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/08/1974
HEMINGWAY, George (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HEMINGWAY, George (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0206
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the beaching crew during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 18/05/1974
HENDLEY, Elizabeth. (b. ca. 1900)
HENDLEY, Elizabeth. (b. ca. 1900)
Interview ID: OHB 0078
Founder, owner, and operator, Miss Hendley’s Shop, Denton, Texas. Family background; employment with Federal Reserve Board, Washington D. C., 1920; financial reverses of father’s farms and ranches; opening of gift shop, Denton, 1924; comments on Dallas suppliers; relocation of gift shop near Texas Woman’s University; description of merchandise; comments on Margo Jones; views on price markups; expansion of gift merchandise; entry into dress business; description of effects of Depression in Denton; relocation of store, 1936; assistance provided by Home Owners Loan Corporation; purchase of building near North Texas State Teachers College, 1940s; comments on competition and close of store near North Texas, 1979; views on customer preferences in clothing; comments on personnel hired for stores; civic activities; comments on buying merchandise at markets worldwide; views on competition from Golden Triangle Mall; factors contributing to successful business.
Date of Interview: 22/09/1980
HENDON, Claude L. (b. 1919)
HENDON, Claude L. (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OH 0950
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Sherman, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 06/03/1994
HENDRICKS, Jubal (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HENDRICKS, Jubal (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0370
His experiences while aboard an officers’ gig alongside the repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 11/04/1977
HENDRIX, Bobbie Lou (b. 1933)
HENDRIX, Bobbie Lou (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 0939
Her recollections concerning the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas.
Date of Interview: 24/01/1994
HENRY, Florine (b. 1935)
HENRY, Florine (b. 1935)
Interview ID: OH 1655
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Childhood and education in all-black McKinney schools; nursing education at Prairie View A&M College and McKinney City County Hospital; career at Ashburn Veterans Administration hospital, Cook County (Illinois) Hospital; history of McKinney black community; comparison of conditions for black residents of McKinney and Chicago, Illinois; volunteer work in McKinney public schools and civic activism to improve black neighborhoods in McKinney; memories of 1948 tornado.
Date of Interview: 25/07/2007
HENRY, Stuart (b. 1941)
HENRY, Stuart (b. 1941)
Interview ID: OH 0460
Attorney, environmentalist. His comments and observations concerning water basin development in Texas. Citizen’s Environmental Coalition; Wallisville lawsuit; Citizens Against Water Taxes (CAWT); Trinity River Barge Canal; Texas Environmental Coalition (TEC); comments about Ned Fritz, J. R. Parten, Bill Clayton, Sierra Club.
Date of Interview: 11/01/1979
HENRY, Walter L. (b. 1918)
HENRY, Walter L. (b. 1918)
Interview ID: OH 0980
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in the Midwest and Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 901 at Pine Valley, California; description of camp; camp life.
Date of Interview: 08/10/1993
HENSON, Lee (b. 1922)
HENSON, Lee (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1547
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Coleman County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Mesa Verda, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 15/03/2004
HEPBURN, Stuart (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Talbot.
HEPBURN, Stuart (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Talbot.Interview ID: OH 1186
His experiences aboard the destroyer (later attack transport) USS Talbot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aleutians operations, 1942; conversion of the Talbot into an attack transport, 1943; operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943; island landings of Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and underwater demolition teams on New Georgia, Vella Lavella, Stirling Island, Treasury Islands, and Bougainville, 1943-44; Marianas Campaign, 1944; collision with the battleship USS Pennsylvania; observations of Japanese civilians committing suicide on Guam; everyday life aboard ship; Leyte invasion, 1944; explosion on the USS Mount Hood in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island; kamikaze attacks while on picket duty during the Okinawa Campaign, 1945.
Date of Interview: 07/04/1997
HERNANDEZ, Cecelia Bermejo (b. 1957)
HERNANDEZ, Cecelia Bermejo (b. 1957)
Interview ID: OH 1774
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Second generation of Bermejo women. Recollections of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; consequences of not having a higher education; sending daughter to college; lack of emphasis on Latinas attending college; results of cultural factors on education.
Date of Interview: 16/02/2013
HERNANDEZ, Yessica L. (b. 1990)
HERNANDEZ, Yessica L. (b. 1990)
Interview ID: OH 1865
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Childhood in Mexico; immigration to the United States; becoming American; attending college while undocumented; activism and the North Texas DREAM Team; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); resistance to the DREAM Act; debate over immigration law/reform; American misconceptions of undocumented people.
Date of Interview: 05/11/2015
HERRMANN, William (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran. 719th Bomb Squadron. 449th Bomb Group. 15th Air Force.
HERRMANN, William (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran. 719th Bomb Squadron. 449th Bomb Group. 15th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1545
Physicist. His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the Mediterranean and European Theaters during World War II. His decision to join the Enlisted Reserve Corps while a student at the University of Massachusetts, September, 1942; call to active duty, March, 1943, and Army basic training at Kearns, Utah; decision to volunteer for Aviation Cadet training at Superior, Wisconsin, August, 1943; flexible gunnery training, Laredo, Texas, 1943; navigator training, San Marcos Army Air Base, Texas, 1943-44; assignment to the 449th Bomb Group, Foggia, Italy, 1944; his appointment as lead navigator for the 719th Bomb Squadron, 1944; his assessment of the B-24 Liberator; mission to Vienna, Austria, getting hit by flak, and making a forced landing on the island of Vis off the coast of Yugoslavia, August, 1944; mission to a ball bearing factory at Linz, Austria; receiving cracked teeth and a concussion from a flak burst; the combat death of his hutmate and how it affected him; his last mission, April, 1945; his return to college on the GI Bill and his postwar business career.
Date of Interview: 31/03/2004
HERSH, Authella (b. 1907)
HERSH, Authella (b. 1907)
Interview ID: OH 1217
Copper craftswoman. Her reminiscences and childhood memories of her brothers, the architect O’Neil Ford, and the cabinetmaker Lynn Ford. Childhood games and construction projects; amateur theatrical presentations; design and construction of the Little Chapel in the Woods, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, by the National Youth Administration under the direction of O’Neil and Lynn Ford; O'Neil's student days at North Texas State Normal College, Denton, Texas, 1923-24; O'Neil's funeral, 1982.
Date of Interview: 15/07/1986
HESS, William P. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 384th Fighter Squadron. 364th Fighter Group. 8th Air Force.
HESS, William P. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 384th Fighter Squadron. 364th Fighter Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1281
Crop duster, businessman. His experiences as a fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Early interest in flying and aviation; employment at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California, 1939-42; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, 1942; Aviation Cadet Program, 1942-43; primary flight school, Visalia, California, 1943; basic flight training, Bakersfield, California, 1943; advanced flight training, Luke Field, Phoenix, Arizona, 1943; assignment to the P-38 Lightning, Santa Ana, California, 1944; assignment to the 364th Fighter Group, Honington, England, 1944; flying cover for ground troops on D-Day, June 6, 1944; transfer to the P-51 Mustang; targets of opportunity over France; skip-bombing missions; long-range fighter escorts over Germany; shooting down three German aircraft in a dogfight on December 31, 1944; rating the quality of German aircraft and pilots; encounter with Me-262 jet aircraft; encounters against buzz bombs and V-1 and V-2 rockets; ground-support missions during the Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; comparisons and contrasts between the P-38 and P-51; detailed description of his most memorable dogfight; postwar adjustments to civilian life.
Date of Interview: 19/02/1999
HESTER, Steve (b. ca. 1910)
HESTER, Steve (b. ca. 1910)
Interview ID: OH 1458
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. His description of farm property during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas, 1987. Comments about buildings; identification of various landowners and their holdings; description of Vaughn Town.
Date of Interview: 09/09/1987
HEWETT, Leslie (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HEWETT, Leslie (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1128
His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Pargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date of Interview: 15/04/1996
HEYER, Anna H. (b. ca. 1908)
HEYER, Anna H. (b. ca. 1908)
Interview ID: OH 0851
Librarian. Her experiences in the development of the Music Library at North Texas State College, 1940-65.
Date of Interview: 30/11/1991
HICKS, John Howard (b. 1938)
HICKS, John Howard (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 1871
For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Family history; childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; memories of teachers in Mansfield’s black school; attendance at I.M. Terrell; memories of Mansfield Crisis; NAACP activity in Mansfield; career with Bell Helicopter; perceptions of race relations in Mansfield.
Date of Interview: 28/04/2015
HIGHTOWER, Isaac (b.1920)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
HIGHTOWER, Isaac (b.1920)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1649
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II-era Army Air Corps pilot. Childhood in Fort Worth; education in Fort Worth schools and at Texas Christian University; decision to enroll in Army Air Corps; training at bases in San Antonio, Greenville, and Waco, Tex.; assignment to B-26 unit, and later to B-17 unit; service at bases in Italy and England; twenty-nine combat missions in skies over Germany and Central Europe; readjustment to life in the U.S.
Date of Interview: 09/10/2007
HILL, D. D. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HILL, D. D. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0786
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 01/10/1989
HILL, Fred (b. 1934)
HILL, Fred (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 1625
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Son of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Experiences of his parents, Othella and T.C. Hill, and other family members who were forced to move from the all-black Quakertown neighborhood of Denton; career in U.S. Army and as an undertaker in Denton; Quakertown in family’s historical memory.
Date of Interview: 06/11/2006
HILL, Jack (b. 1922)
HILL, Jack (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1664
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill. Childhood in McKinney, Texas; family’s experience in the Great Depression; decision to drop out of school to work in the mill at age of sixteen; lay-off due to new child labor laws, and decision to go to work at Wilson’s Grocery Store and later at Cole’s Groceries; enlistment in Army Air Forces during World War II and service in China-Burma-India Theater; tornado of 1948; career in retail sales.
Date of Interview: 08/12/2006
HILL, John (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Boise.
HILL, John (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Boise.Interview ID: OH 1381
Businessman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, December, 1941; assignment as a radio communications officer; duty on an LST around Kavieng; construction of a radio station on Emirau; transfer to the cruiser USS Boise, 1944; personal observations about General Douglas A. MacArthur; Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944, and kamikaze attacks; postwar career in the television industry.
Date of Interview: 11/03/1999
HILL, Ruth Edmonds (b. 1925)
HILL, Ruth Edmonds (b. 1925)
Interview ID: OH 1893
For the Oral History Association Archive Oral History Project. Oral historian and educator. Childhood in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; family history; educational and professional background; Brother Blue (Hugh Morgan Hill); experiences in the South; storytelling with Blue; work at the Schlesinger Library; Black Women’s Oral History Project; various women’s oral history projects; involvement in the Oral History Association; diversity in oral history.
Date of Interview: 13/05/2016 to 14/04/2017
HILL, William (b. 1915)
HILL, William (b. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 0685
Retired schoolteacher. His experiences concerning race relations in Sherman, Texas, 1915-30. Lynching of George Hughes in Sherman, 1930; recollections about the African-American business and professional community in Sherman; Ku Klux Klan marches.
Date of Interview: 13/10/1986
HILL, William D. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HILL, William D. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0588
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Raleigh during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/12/1982
HILL, Woodrow (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HILL, Woodrow (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0727
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/11/1987
HILLIARD, Larry S. (b. 1947)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.
HILLIARD, Larry S. (b. 1947)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 0930
His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1970-71. Assignment to 18th surgical Hospital, Quang Tri; typical workday; off-duty recreation; treatment of combat casualties; equipment and blood shortages; drug problems; morale; communications with his family; leave policies; work with Vietnamese civilians; treating enemy POWs; “short-time”; lasting effects of Vietnam experience.
Date of Interview: 18/04/1992
HILLIARD, Ruth (b. 1903)
Farmers and Merchants State Bank; R&R Variety Store.
HILLIARD, Ruth (b. 1903)
Farmers and Merchants State Bank; R&R Variety Store.Interview ID: OHB 0050
Vice-president and cashier, Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Krum, Texas; owner and operator of R & R Variety Store, Mesquite, Texas. Family background; banking operations in Krum, early 1900s; social life in Krum, early 1900s; education at College of Industrial Arts (Texas Woman’s University); comments on teaching in Orange and Port Arthur, Texas; work as organizer of Texas Woman’s University’s Ex-Student Association; teaching in Lordsburg, New Mexico; establishment of R & R Variety Store in Mesquite, 1936; construction of new store; shortage of labor during World War II; sale of business and comments on discrimination experiences as businesswoman; social life in Mesquite; views on Depression; employment at Farmers and Merchants State Bank in Krum, 1950; comments on bank’s clientele; computerization of bank, 1973; experiences as victim of bank robberies; comments on retirement.
Date of Interview: 12/03/1981
HILZ FAMILY. W. M. Hilz, Sr. (b. 1900), Mrs. W. M. Hilz, Sr. (b. 1899), George W. Hilz (b. 1924), W. M. Hilz, Jr. (b. 1926), and Sue Hilz (b. 1931)
HILZ FAMILY. W. M. Hilz, Sr. (b. 1900), Mrs. W. M. Hilz, Sr. (b. 1899), George W. Hilz (b. 1924), W. M. Hilz, Jr. (b. 1926), and Sue Hilz (b. 1931)
Interview ID: OHB 0029
HILZ, W. M., Sr. Founder, City Machine Shop, Pilot Point, Texas, 1928. Family background, education; blacksmithing; making steam engines, cotton boll crushers, gin saws; working in steam and gas engine repair shop during World War I; International Correspondence Schools auto course; founding of City Machine Shop with partner Mike Amon, 1928; evolution of machine shop equipment; Depression; National Recovery Administration; World War II; selling his interest to son George; semi-retirement; financing methods.
HILZ, Mrs. W. M., Sr. Wife of founder, City Machine Shop. Family background, education; her community and church work; marriage, family life, rearing nine children.
HILZ, George W. Owner and operator of City Machine Shop. Family background; boyhood jobs; work as youth in father’s City Machine Shop; education; military service in World War II; becoming sole owner of City Machine Shop; growth of business; changing services; financing methods; customer problems in small town; satisfactions of self-employment; tenure as Mayor of Pilot Point.
HILZ, W. M., Jr. President, Hilz Ford Sales, Pilot Point, Texas. Family background; boyhood chores; work as youth in father’s City Machine Shop; Depression; National Recovery Administration; military service in World War II; education; computing work with Marine Seismic Survey; branch manager for U.S. Electrical Motors; merger with Emerson Electric; decision to quit big company; buying into Ford agency.
HILZ, Sue. Founder, accountant, secretary, Hilz Ford Sales. Family background (maiden name Roane), education; marriage and family life; starting Ford agency in husband’s absence; creation of bookkeeping system.
HILZ, W. M. and Sue (joint Interview). Goal setting; growth of agency; hard lessons learned; customer credit; small town atmosphere, problems and advantages; relationship with Ford Motor Co.; public tastes in vehicles; cash flow sources; advertising; reasons for success; employee relations; customer problems; incorporation.
Date of Interview: 26/10/1978 to 27/12/1978, 11/01/1979
HOBBS, Leon (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
HOBBS, Leon (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0673
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with H Company, 35th Infantry, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 26/04/1986
HOBERMAN, Judy (b. 1954)
HOBERMAN, Judy (b. 1954)
Interview ID: OH 2083
For the Women in Business Oral History Project. Entrepreneur and author. The interview spans her early life and education, as well as her changes in career from accounting, and sales, to running her own business and writing her books. She discusses her motivation to empower women in business using her tagline “Women want to be treated equally, not identically.” She discusses the decisions and experiences as a woman in business that led her to open her own company and the challenges she faced. She also discusses the impact of COVID on her business and its effect on business as a whole.
Date of Interview: 22/03/2023
HOCKER, Claude O. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HOCKER, Claude O. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1103
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/10/1995
HODGE, Luther Dale (b. 1941)
Duke and Ayres Company.
HODGE, Luther Dale (b. 1941)
Duke and Ayres Company.Interview ID: OHB 0101
Supervisor of stores, Duke and Ayres Company, Cameron, Texas. Family background; farming near Cobb, Oklahoma; employment at Green Spray Supermarket, Durant, Oklahoma; employment as manager trainee, Duke and Ayres, Dallas, 1961; description of personnel at Dallas store; relocation as assistant manager at Waxahachie store; duties of assistant manager; work as vacation relief manager for stores in Athens, Gainesville, and Denton, Texas and Idabel, Oklahoma, 1962; employment as manager of De Leon, Texas store, 1962; relocation to Cameron, Texas store, 1965; comments on personnel at Cameron store; duties of store manager; appointment as supervisor of South Texas stores, 1975; stock-buying options for managers; comments on supervisors’ Saturday meetings at home office; views on management’s conservative approach to business and loss of experienced employees; comments on store closeout procedures; views on major competitors; company attitude toward management’s involvement in civic activities and church attendance; sale of company stock to First Southwest Company, 1972; cutting of inventory and sales losses, 1979; views on collapse of company; effects of minimum wage legislation on store operations.
Date of Interview: 17/03/1984
HODGSON, Walter H. (b. 1904)
HODGSON, Walter H. (b. 1904)
Interview ID: OH 0359
Retired university professor-administrator, former dean of the North Texas State University School of Music. His His recollections concerning the formation of the jazz program at North Texas State College while dean of the School of Music.
Date of Interview: 10/03/1977
Interview ID: OH 0482
His experiences as dean of the NTSU School of Music. Early years at NTSU; development of jazz program; appointment as dean; comments about Silvio Scionti, Mary McCormic, George Morey, Frank McKinley, Wilfred Bain, Lloyd Hibberd, Helen Hewitt, Harry Parshall, Frank Mainous, Maurice McAdow, Ralph Daniel, Walter Robert, Floyd Graham, and John Haynie.
Date of Interview: 17/11/1978
HOE, Robert (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Sino-American Cooperative Organization.
HOE, Robert (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Sino-American Cooperative Organization.Interview ID: OH 1525
Engineer, nuclear physicist. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Pre-war education at the University of Rochester; enlistment in the Navy, July, 1943; midshipman’s school, Columbia University, 1943-44; volunteering for training with Navy Scouts, Raiders, and Underwater Demolition Teams, Fort Pierce, Florida, 1944; assignment to China as a part of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, 1944; assignment to Camp 6 behind Japanese lines near Amoy; training of Chinese for guerrilla warfare and underwater demolitions; aborted raid on Wosu Island; harassment of Japanese troops; coastwatching activities; collecting meteorological data; comments about General Tai Li, chief of the Chinese Nationalist intelligence service and head of SACO; postwar education and work in various nuclear reactor programs.
Date of Interview: 20/09/2003
HOFFMAN, Robert (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HOFFMAN, Robert (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0193
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with the base medical detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 09/05/1974
HOFSTEIN, Arthur (b. 1922)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
HOFSTEIN, Arthur (b. 1922)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1650
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II-era U.S. Army veteran. Childhood in Dorchester and Cambridge, Massachusetts; enlistment in U.S. Army and assignment to Tenth Armored Division; basic training at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and reassignment to radio operations and anti-aircraft gunnery; retraining at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, and Camp Gordon, Georgia; Atlantic Ocean crossing; combat operations in France, Luxembourg, and Germany, including Battle of the Bulge, over eight months in 1944-45; thoughts about fighting Germans as a Jewish-American; encounter with an officer of the German SS; liberation of Dachau concentration camp; service during five months of U.S. Army occupation of Germany; return to U.S.; discharge from Army; benefits afforded by GI Bill; involvement in American veterans’ organizations.
Date of Interview: 30/10/2007
HOKE, Frank A. (b. 1911)
HOKE, Frank A. (b. 1911)
Interview ID: OH 0093
Banker, attorney. His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.
Date of Interview: 24/11/1971
HOLCOMB, Marguerite O. (b. 1907)
HOLCOMB, Marguerite O. (b. 1907)
Interview ID: OH 1092
Former employee of the Nocona Boot Company, 1952-76. Her experiences concerning her employment at the Nocona Boot Company, Nocona, Texas, and her recollections about its founder, Ms. Enid Justin. Employer-employee relations; boot-making; fashion changes; union activities; expansion and factory outlets; Ms. Enid’s civic activities.
Date of Interview: 23/08/1995
HOLCOMBE, George (b. 1933) and Wanda (b. 1940)
HOLCOMBE, George (b. 1933) and Wanda (b. 1940)
Interview ID: OH 1890
Methodist pastor, educator, and civil rights activists. Childhoods; exposure to racism, discrimination, and segregation; interactions with African Americans; civil rights work in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Chicago, Illinois; Ecumenical Institute; restrictions on women and the women’s movement; run-ins with the Ku Klux Klan; developing a model for creating a positive self-image in minority communities; self-image work in Asia and Australia; contemporary racism; Head Start Program; 1968 Chicago riots.
Date of Interview: 02/01/2017
HOLDCRAFT, Alvin D. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 112th Infantry Regiment. 28th Infantry Division.
HOLDCRAFT, Alvin D. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 112th Infantry Regiment. 28th Infantry Division.Interview ID: OH 1425
His experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Early youth moving around various states in the Midwest and the East Coast; enrollment at Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Virginia, 1941-42; induction into the Army, 1943; basic training, Camp Croft, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1943; assignment to the 28th Division and shipment to England, 1944; introduction to combat in France, July, 1944; Battle of the Bulge and his capture by German troops, December 23, 1944; interrogation in Frankfurt and later at Stalag Luft IV-B, Mühlberg, Germany; camp life at Stalag Luft IV-B, January 31-April 23, 1945; forced marches; liberation by Russian troops and reunion with his former unit at Kassel, Germany; processing and recuperation at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France; postwar jobs.
Date of Interview: 11/05/2011
HOLLAND, Frederick (b. 1912)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
HOLLAND, Frederick (b. 1912)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1326
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Early employment with REA Express; basic training, Fort Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 1942; his transfer to the Air Force and assignment to Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Miami, Florida, 1943; assignment to India; assignment to Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta, 1943; his role in supervising and shipping cargo over "The Hump" (Himalaya Mountains) to China; assignment to Baruipur Airport, Calcutta; his role in the development and operation of the first mobile conveyor unit to load and unload cargo; awarding of the Bronze Star for his invention.
Date of Interview: 16/02/1999
HOLLAND, Roy T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HOLLAND, Roy T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1136
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 26/09/1996
HOLLINGSHEAD, Cecil (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HOLLINGSHEAD, Cecil (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0609
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-11 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/10/1983
HOLMES, Zan W. (b. 1935)
HOLMES, Zan W. (b. 1935)
Interview ID: OH 0921
Clergyman, community leader. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, during the 1950s and 1960s. Youth and adolescent years in Waco; segregated education; college at Huston-Tillotson, 1952-56; entry to Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, 1956; organizing the Hamilton Park Methodist Church and his pastorship there; his home in Hamilton Park; his political activities; church youth programs; zoning problems; Hamilton Park School and desegregation.
Date of Interview: 19/09/1991 to 05/11/1991
HOLSTON, William (b. 1922)
HOLSTON, William (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1003
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Alabama; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Powers, Oregon; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 12/02/1994
HOLSTON, William O. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 370th Bomb Squadron. 307th Bomb Group. 13th Air Force.
HOLSTON, William O. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 370th Bomb Squadron. 307th Bomb Group. 13th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1380
His experiences as a navigator on a B-24 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enrollment in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1940; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1942-43; College Training Detachment, Southwestern University, Memphis, Tennessee, 1943; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; pre-flight training, San Antonio, 1943; primary flight training, Ballinger, Texas, 1943; basic flight training, Sherman, Texas, 1943; his fear of the BT-13 Vultee “Vibrator” trainer and washing out, 1943; aerial gunnery training, Harlingen, Texas, 1943; navigator’s school, Monroe, Louisiana, 1943-44; establishment of crew integrity at Tonopah, Nevada, 1944; assignment to the Southwest Pacific, 1945; his first bombing mission to Rabaul; stationing at Morotai with the 370th Bomb Squadron; Japanese ground assaults on the airbase at Morotai; mission to Brunei Bay; mission to Balikpapan, Borneo, oil refineries and fuel problems; Japanese flak; napalm mission to Makassar; ground support mission for Australian troops on Tarakan, Borneo; troop-ferrying missions to Okinawa; postwar adjustments to civilian life.
Date of Interview: 01/09/2000
Interview ID: OH 1399
Miscellaneous personal papers, including flight logs and diaries, detailing his experiences as a navigator on a B-24 Liberator in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date of Interview: 01/09/2000
HOLT, Brooks (b. 1912)
HOLT, Brooks (b. 1912)
Interview ID: OH 0558
Civil servant. His experiences while serving as a district director for the National Youth Administration in East Texas during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 13/10/1980
HONIKMAN, Jane (b. 1945)
HONIKMAN, Jane (b. 1945)
Interview ID: OH 2029
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Jane I. Honikman was a co-founder of Postpartum Education for Parents (1977) and founder of Postpartum Support International (1987). Keywords: postpartum depression, women and mental health, maternal health, Postpartum Support International, Marcé Society, adoption, Postpartum Education for Parents, American Association of University Women, AUW, the international Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health, concealed pregnancy, Our Bodies Ourselves, Dr. James Hamilton, Depression After Delivery, men and depression, men and parenting, Carol Dix, National Family Resource Conference, warm line, self-help movement, Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia.
Date of Interview: 13/11/2019
HOOPER, Thurman H. (b. 1915)
HOOPER, Thurman H. (b. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 0910
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas and Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Peaceful Valley, Colorado; camp move to Bonham, Texas; Durango, Colorado; Camp Mesa Verde, Colorado; Alamosa, Colorado; Jasper, Texas; Bowie, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 24/02/1993
HOOPER, W. R. (b. 1942)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps.
HOOPER, W. R. (b. 1942)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 0869
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Civilian and military education; 18th Surgical Hospital at Camp Evans; Quang tri City; battle casualties; social life; relations with Vietnamese civilians; civilian casualties; North Vietnamese POWs; family relationships; personal thoughts about U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Date of Interview: 05/05/1984
HOPKINS, Harry (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HOPKINS, Harry (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0640
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/05/1984
HORKY, Otto (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HORKY, Otto (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0203
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-11 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/05/1974
HORNER, Charles H. (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HORNER, Charles H. (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: Oh 0453
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Cassin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/08/1978
HORNSBY, Eddie L. (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
HORNSBY, Eddie L. (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0496
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/11/1979
HORTON, Carl (b. 1935)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.
HORTON, Carl (b. 1935)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 1198
Operating room nurse. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1961-70. Assignment to Yokohama, Japan, and treatment of Vietnam battle casualties, 1966-69; assignment to Dong Tam with 3rd Surgical Hospital, 1969; treatment of battle casualties in operating room; living accommodations; hospital facilities; transfer of 3rd Surgical Hospital to Can Tho, 1969; hospital facilities at Can Tho; leisure time and recreation; treatment of South Vietnamese military personnel and civilians; “short time” and out-processing; post- Vietnam adjustments; employment with Veterans Administration and dealing with Vietnam veterans.
Date of Interview: 31/08/1997
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