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PARKER, Walt (b. 1918) Texas House of Representatives Democrat

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OH 0084
Builder, farmer-rancher, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. 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…
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OH 1806
For Richard Rafes’s dissertation, “The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975.” Former Texas state legislator. Professional background; creation of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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PARR, Thomas E. (b. 1936) U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, Nurse Corps

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OH 0884
His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1971. Psychiatric casualties at Long Binh; heroin detoxification center at Cam Ranh Bay.
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OH 2057

Parry, Barbara: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Barbara L. Parry is a professor of psychiatry focused on women's mood disorders, especially postpartum depression and premenstrual disorders. She discusses her training and early research in the field, her work with light therapy and with sleep and…

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PARSONS, John (b. 1915) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0270
His experiences while aboard the tug USS Ontario during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1204
Homemaker. Her reminiscences about various aspects of the history of Denton, Texas, 1910-1976. Church activities; revivals; brush arbors; baptisms; Great Depression; courting; miscellaneous items.
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OH 1249
Graduate student. Her experiences in working with women's issues at the University of North Texas, 1993-97. Early education on the Isle of Man and in England; family background; searching for career choices; college years at Oxford Polytechnic College; student activism at Oxford Polytechnic; origins of her interest in women's issues; scholarship…
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OH 0286
Oilman. His career in the oil industry; Board of Regents, University of Texas. Rainey controversy; government service during World War II; political philosophy and activities.
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OH 0870
Physician, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Childhood in Budapest; family’s practice of Judaism; anti-Semitism before Nazi invasion; anti-Jewish laws in 1930s; Hungarian declaration of war against Soviet Union and formation of Jewish labor battalions, 1941; German occupation of Hungary, 1944; deportations from countryside…
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OH 0965
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-91. Youth in East Texas; education in segregated schools; decision to move to Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; Hamilton Park School; flooding problems; desegregation of Hamilton Park School and coming of Pacesetter; violations of deed restrictions;…
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OH 0925
Her experiences while growing up in Hamilton Park, Texas, 1957-70. Hamilton Park School and desegregation.
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OH 2131

Denton drag artist. Experiences doing drag in Denton; earliest experiences with media, relationship with grandmother and mother, and her first time seeing drag live, all of which inspired her own performance and drag persona; local artists who became her community; how the drag family operates and how her drag family is different, more of a “…

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OH 0034
Banker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Port Aransas and Aransas Pass, Texas, 1920-70.
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PATTON, Howard L. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, A Battery, 202nd Battalion, 607th Coast Artillery Regiment

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OH 1304
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Induction and stateside training, Camp Hulen, Palacios, Texas, and Camp Cook, Lompoc, California, 1942-43; operations in New Guinea, 1943-44; invasion of Toem, 1944; invasion of Leyte, 1944; invasion of Mindoro, 1944; eyewitness accounts of kamikaze attacks; operations around Zamboanga,…
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PATTON, James H. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division

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OH 1476
His experiences as a paratrooper in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in Du Bois, Pennsylvania; attendance at Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pennsylvania; enlistment in the Army, February, 1942; basic training, Camp Croft, Spartenburg, South Carolina, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1942; volunteering…
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OH 0889
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pilot Point, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to CNM-2-A in Bonita National Park near Douglas, Arizona; reenlistment to Company 3889 at G-113-W near Baggs, Wyoming; description of camps; life in camps.
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OH 0865
His experiences while growing up in Hamilton Park, Texas, 1955-65. Hamilton Park School; athletic activities; band activities.
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OH 0907
Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1925-36. Family background; school facilities; school extra-curricular activities; physical layout of Frederick Douglass Colored School; comments about teachers and Principal Fred Moore; church activities; segregated public facilities in Denton.
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OH 1504
Schoolteacher, community and civil rights activist. Her reminiscences of many years as a teacher at I.M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth, Texas, and her activities in community affairs and the civil rights movement. Her family background; her childhood and early education in a segregated society; college at Howard University, Washington, D.C.;…
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OH 0008
Professional economist. His experiences as one of the principal persons in the Rainey controversy at the University of Texas, 1944-45. His sympathies for New Deal labor legislation; being accused of pro-communist leanings; role of Dallas Morning News; investigations by Board of Regents and his dismissal; support by President Homer Rainey; role of…
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PEACOCK, James LeRoy (b. 1920) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran

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OH 1876
Flight instructor at Tuskegee Army Airfield. Childhood in Macon, Georgia; Army Air Corps flight training; selection as a flight instructor; assignment to Tuskegee Army Airfield; segregation at Tuskegee; reaction of white community to black pilots; reassignment as a bomber pilot; transition to Reserves at end of war; discharge form Reserves;…
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PEAKE, David (b. 1924) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 1041
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a member of the 5th Marine Division. Iwo Jima; occupation duty in postwar Japan.
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PEARSALL, Burton S. (b. 1922) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, Squadron 143, 1st Marine Aircraft Group

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OH 1175
His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Childhood and adolescence in Elgin, Illinois; enrollment at Iowa State University, 1940; enlistment in Naval Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic flight training, Wheaton, College, 1942; pre-flightschool, Ottumwa, Iowa, 1943; advanced training, Corpus Christi Naval…
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OH 1185
His experiences on the homefront as a teenager in Elgin, Illinois, during World War II. Education and childhood in Elgin; local reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; air raid drills and blackouts; attempts to make people war conscious; spy hysteria; censorship of mail; harassment of German Americans; gasoline…
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PEARSON, Lloyd L. (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0557
Trucker. His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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