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KERESEY, Richard E. (b. 1916) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, Patrol-Torpedo Boat Squadron 5

Interview ID#
OH 1302
Attorney. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background; entry into the Navy, 1941; Northwestern Midshipman School, 1941; Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island, 1942; operations around the Solomon Islands, 1943; New Georgia Campaign, 1943; accounts of individual exploits of his…

KERNS, James T. (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0316
His experiences while aboard a motor launch in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

KERR, Baine P. (b. 1919) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions

Interview ID#
OH 0947
Attorney. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Guadalcanal, 1942-43; machine gun wound at Guadalcanal; Tarawa, 1943; Kwajalein, 1943; Saipan and Tinian, 1944; assignment to legal office at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

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OH 1855
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas; Civil/structural engineer and businessman. Childhood in Shiraz, Iran; coming to America at fourteen by himself; living with extended family in Texas; adjusting to America and learning English; parents’ escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution;…

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OH 1684
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to suburban Allen, Texas. Family history; memories of Iran; decision to immigrate to the U.S. in 1978; first impressions of the U.S.; opinions about the Iranian Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini; education at the University of Oklahoma; career in information…

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OH 1480
Her recollections while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, August 30-September 1, 1969, in Lewisville, Texas. Her early interest in popular music, particularly The Beatles; her rejection of middle-class cultural values; influence of the Vietnam War on young people; her decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; her…

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OHB 0022
Founders, owner, and operators of Kibler Office Supplies, Denton, Texas. KIBLER, Morris. Family background; early work experience, education; work as youth in Texas Legislature; Air Force, college teaching careers; office machine salesman; purchase of own business; growth and expansion; comments on self-employment. KIBLER, Lillian. Family…

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OH 1803
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Congolese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood in Congo; differences in the school system; travelling around Africa; Congolese culture; moving to the DFW area; differences in food; attending historically black Wiley College; black community in Marshall, Texas; differences between…

KIEHNE, Rudy (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1355
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

KILBORN, Allen S. (b. 1914) U.S. Army Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0834
His experiences as an Army officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Iowa; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2726-V near Winterset, Iowa; reassignment to Company 783 in Leon, Iowa; reassignment to Company 1742 in Tarkio, Missouri; company move to Gallatin, Missouri; transfer to Company 3773-V in…

KILDAY, Paul (b. 1900)U.S. Congressman

Interview ID#
OH 0004
Attorney, judge, former U.S. Congressman from San Antonio, 1939-49. Neutrality legislation; selective service legislation; Lend-Lease; conscientious objectors; atomic bomb; demobilization; Marshall Plan; Truman Doctrine; creation of Atomic Energy Commission; Unification Act of the Armed Services; creation of Department of Defense; campaign for…

KILLGO, Carlton J. (b. 1922) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0109
His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Shooting down of bomber by German fighter. Planes over Magdeburg, 1944; capture by civilians; imprisonment and interrogation near Frankfurt; Stalag Luft 4; Grostichow, East Prussia, 1944; Stalag Luft 1, Barth, 1945; liberation…

KILMER, Robert B. (b. 1919) U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran, 547th Bomb Squadron, 389th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

Interview ID#
OH 1433
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences with the French Resistance and as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. His educational background; his reaction to the Pearl Harbor attack; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, April, 1942; basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary…

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OH 1874
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteaders and simple life advocates. Childhoods; early experiences with gardening and the outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life.

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OH 0709
Homemaker, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early educational experiences in East Texas; Tennyson Miller and Abner Haynes, their impact on the desegregation of North Texas State College; her personal experiences as a student at North…
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OH 1903
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; family background; educational and professional background; Denton’s American Legion Senior Center; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; Denton desegregation; experiences with discrimination and segregation; continued discrimination after integration; contemporary…
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OH 1822
For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Long-time Denton resident. Childhood in Denton; involvement in various activities, including the Senior Center and church; history of Quakertown; Denton during segregation; the Denton Square; fading communal memory of Quakertown; changes in Denton since integration; changes in the…

KINDL, Clarence W. (b. 1916) U.S.Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0641
His experiences at Wheeler Field with the 46th Fighter Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview ID#
OH 0867
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School in Denton, Texas, 1928-40. Family background; segregated education; comments about classmates and teachers; school activities; sports; discipline; courses and classes; summer jobs; comments about desegregation and closing of Fred Moore School.

KING, Frank H. (b. 1921) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0468
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944-45…

KING, Harve D. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Company B, 350th Engineer Regiment

Interview ID#
OH 0937
Educator, university administrator. His experiences as a student at Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, during the 1920s and 1930s. Youth in East Texas; segregation in Denton; comments about Professor Fred Moore; school facilities; athletics; comments about his teachers; influence of coach Tennyson Miller; “Three M’s” singing group;…
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OH 1411
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in segregated East Texas; his move to Denton, Texas, in 1933 and his education at Frederick Douglass school; enrollment at Texas College, 1939, on a football scholarship; induction into the Army, July, 1942; basic training at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1942; life in…

Interview ID#
OH 0570
Public school administrator. His experiences as one of the two African Americans who first integrated athletics at North Texas State College, 1956; comments about Abner Haynes.

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OH 1515
Musician. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His adoption of the hippie counterculture while in high school in Corsicana, Texas; his description about various aspects of the Pop Festival; drug use at the Pop Festival; his description of the bands performing at the…