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OHB 0026
Owner and operator of Logan’s Shoe Repair, Denton, Texas. Family background; early work experiences; work as youth in shoe repair shops; thoughts about an African-American man in white business world; employment at North Texas State University library and Morrison Milling Company; going into business for himself; experiences with financial…
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LONG, Clifton (b. 1919)Tex Tan Western Leather Company

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OHB 0043
Vice-president and general sales manager, Tex Tan Western Leather Company, Yoakum, Texas. Family background; comments on Depression in Yoakum; experiences in Army and as prisoner-of-war of Germans during World War II; employment as assistant personnel manager and salesman for Tex Tan; product line; sale of business to Charles Tandy and company…
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OH 1817
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Businessman and long-time Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Cambridge, England; first realization of being gay; being gay in the post-World War II Royal Air Force; immigration to the U.S. in 1956; Texas gay rights movement; Human Rights Foundation; activism in the Dallas LGBT community; rejection of…
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LOVELADY, Choice B. (b. 1920) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0415
His experiences at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OHB 0056
Business manager, Texas Woman’s University; owner and operator, Marvin Loveless Photography Studio, Denton, Texas; and owner and operator, Denton Mini Warehouses, Denton, Texas. Family background; farming in West Texas; employment as secretary to president, Texas Woman’s University, 1922; experiences as secretary to Board of Regents and business…
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LOWE, John (b. 1920) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0436
His experiences while aboard the tanker USS Neosho during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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LOWRY, Cameron (b. 1979) United States Army, Texas National Guard

Interview ID#
OH 1914
Member of the United States Army. Reasons for joining. Experiences at the New Mexico Military Institute. What it was like being stationed in Kuwait. Missions with the Texas National Guard. ROTC recruiter at the University of North Texas.
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LOYD, Walter (b. 1924) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0265
His experiences while aboard the tanker USS Neosho during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1715
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Chinese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood and education in China; family life; parents’ role in decision-making; decision to enter U.S. to study accounting; practice of Christianity in China; immigration process; religious freedom in U.S. vs. China; struggles to acculturate.
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LUCIANO, Frank (b. 1921) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0227
His experiences at Fort Kamehameha with the Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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LUCKADOO, John H. (b. 1922) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Vetern, 350th and 351st Bomb Squadrons, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

Interview ID#
OH 1300
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Primary, basic, and advanced training in the U.S., 1942-43; assignment to the B-17; stationing at Thorpe-Abbotts, England, 1943; his first combat mission; subsequent missions; German antiaircraft defenses and fighter tactics; raid to Bremen, October 8, 1943; defensive…
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LUCKENBACH, L. B. (b. 1912) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0458
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1888
For Richard Rafes dissertation, “The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975.” TCOM co-founder.
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OH 2009
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. He discusses his family’s immigrant history from Vietnam to North Texas, his identity as a Texan, how he found his way to working in the culinary world, and what he hopes to see in the future of Vietnamese American cuisine.
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OH 1587
African-American former student of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood and early education in South Dallas, Texas; decision to enroll at North Texas in 1964; off-campus life in “Shack Town” and support from black citizens of Denton; social life among African-American students and relations with white students and faculty;…
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LYNCH, Lyndle (b. 1924) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1034
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MacIVER, Murdo (b. 1901)Caltex Petroleum Corporation

Interview ID#
OH 0668
Executive. Educational background; early employment; employment with Standard Oil Company of California; transfer to Caltex, 1938; expansion before World War II; Caltex during World War II; Bapco’s refinery expansion; financing postwar refinery expansion; foreign exchange problems; banking syndicates; accounting methods; tanker construction;…
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OH 1884
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Telephone operator and EEOC member and activist. Childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans’ experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the…
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OH 1648
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Redford, Texas. Childhood and early education in Redford; attendance at University of Texas-Austin; family’s farming and mercantile history in the Big Bend area; involvement with Texas Historical Commission; experiences of mother, Lucia Rede Madrid, as a rural librarian;…
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OH 1877
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Family’s decision to leave Mexico; immigration to Dallas, Texas, at seven years old; life as undocumented; discovering the North Texas DREAM Team; DACA; activism; current immigration policy.
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MAGEE, Kenneth (b. 1914) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0340
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1009
Sisters’ recollections of life in Texarkana, Texas, and parents; Junior Service League; family entertainment; women’s suffrage and political activities; church activities; Current Topic Club; Wednesday Music Club; women’s household chores.
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MAGLAUGHLIN, Roy E. (b. 1926) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1189
Farmer. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Pilotfish in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; assignment to the Pilotfish, 1945; his responsibilities as a torpedoman striker; patrol off Marcus Island; also his observations concerning the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2…
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OH 0518
Musician. His recollections about the personal life and professional career of Colonel Earl D. Irons. His student days at North Texas Agricultural College under Irons; Irons’s role in the development of the high school band movement in Texas; Irons’s teaching philosophy; Irons’s relationship with the Texas Music Educators Association; Irons’s…
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MAILER, Norman K. (b. 1923) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

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OH 1560
Novelist. His various reminiscences based on his experiences in the Philippines during World War II. Comments about Army life in general; jungle patrols; observations on the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945; the role of his wartime experiences in his novel, The Naked and the Dead.
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