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OH 1850
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil rights activist, former Dallas City Councilmember, and longtime Dallas ISD employee. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; involvement in Dallas NAACP’s Youth Council with Juanita Craft; civil rights activism; life during segregation; desegregation in Texas schools and at the University of North Texas;…
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REESE, Seldon D. (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0426
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, Thailand, 1944, and American…
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REICHLE, Grover (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

Interview ID#
OH 0495
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, 1944-45; Bangkok, 1945; liberation.
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REID, David (b. 1961) U.S. Navy OIF Verteran

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OH 1673
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Childhood in Savannah, Georgia; education at Valdosta State College; acceptance to U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate school; training at Pensacola, Florida; missions in North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean regions; assignment to Beeville Naval…
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REISINGER, Edward L. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 4th Signal Company, 4th Infantry Division

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OH 1312
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Depression era odd jobs; decision to join the Army, July, 1940; Fort Benning, Georgia, 1940-41, and assignment to the 4th Signal Company; Camp Gordon, Georgia, 1941-1943; Camp Gordon Johnson, Florida, 1943, for amphibious training; his marriage to Margaret Lilly, Christmas Eve, 1942; his…
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OH 1454
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Realtor. Her reminiscences concerning rural life in the area of Tioga,Texas, 1917-1987. Changing demographics of the area; rising land values; comments about long-time residents of the area; a description of life on her family home place; revivals; medicine shows; home remedies; virtues of small-town…
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RETZLOFF, Henry (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0452
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station withthe Base Transportation Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941.
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OH 0604
Businessman. His experiences as a member of the football teamduring the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
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OH 1792
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Musicians, artists, and simple life advocates. Childhoods; influences on life philosophies; discovery of the Nearings and the Simple Life; interest in homesteading; residency at the Good Life Center.
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RICH, John (b. 1917) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, 4th Marine Division

Interview ID#
OH 1363
Journalist. His experiences as a Japanese language interpreter/interrogator in the Pacific Theater during World War II; and his observations as a journalist while covering the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Pre-war career in journalism; U.S. Navy Japanese Language School, University of Colorado, 1942-43;…
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RICHARDSON, Iliff D. (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1284
His experiences as a guerrilla fighter in the Philippine Islands during World War II. Assignment to patrol-torpedo boats in the Philippines,1941; orders from General Douglas A. MacArthur to establish a clandestine radio network to maintain communications with Commander Southwest Pacific after his evacuation from Corregidor; his role in plotting…
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OH 2017
For the Geezle Oral History Project. NTSC alumnus, football player, and member of the Geezles Fraternity. Childhood and public-school education in Dallas and Garland, TX; experiences as a high school football player and recruitment to North Texas in 1956; experiences with the North Texas freshman and varsity football teams; decision to join…
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RICHARDSON, Milroy B. (b. 1922) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran

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OH 1463
His experiences at Wheeler Field with the 6th Pursuit Squadron, 18th Fighter Group, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1470
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
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OH 0712
Schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Segregation in Denton; desegregation of the schools and public facilities in Denton; early meetings of the Fellowship; social activities; programs; street paving in the African American…
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OH 1906
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; memories of the Great Depression and World War II; educational and professional background; ethnicities in Texas in the 1950s and 1960s; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; segregation; Denton civil rights activism; Denton desegregation; contemporary race relations;…
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RIGGLEMAN, Thomas D. (b. 1926) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1065
Engineer. His experiences aboard the destroyer USS McGowan in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Everyday life aboard ship; Iwo Jima; Okinawa and kamikazes; operations off northern Japan, 1945.
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OH 0982
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1814 at Camp G-136-A in Duncan, Arizona; company move to Camp G-173-A in Fredonia, Arizona; Company 3892 at Camp NP-8-C in Grand Junction, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.
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RILEY, Howard (b. 1914) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0454
His experiences at Fort Shafter with the 64th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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RIPP, William (b. 1934)Braniff International Airways

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OH 1965
Dispatch Clerk to Assistant Manager to Shift Manager for Dispatch. 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…
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OH 1749
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Lebanese-born immigrant to Lewisville, Texas. Life in pre-Civil War Lebanon; life during the Lebanese Civil War; preconceptions of America; move to Oxford, England, en route to College Station, Texas; attending Texas A&M University; citizenship process; difficulty with American expressions…
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ROBERSON, James (b. 1926) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1169
His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sailfish in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1942; his responsibilities as a motor machinist’s mate; qualification examinations; various patrols off the Aleutian Islands and in the South China Sea; lifeguard duty off the Mariana Islands for downed…
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ROBERTS, Charles H. (b. 1914) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0384
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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ROBERTS, Charles H. (b. ca. 1918) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 1201
His experiences with the Marine Guard Detachment at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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ROBERTS, Charles Stanly, Jr. (b. 1911)Roberts, Sanford, and Taylor Hardware

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OHB 0105
Chairman, acting president, and chief executive officer, Roberts, Sanford, and Taylor Hardware, Sherman, Texas. Family background; establishment of hardware business in Sherman, 1881; incorporation of business, 1897; employment as warehouser and truck driver for hardware wholesale company; description of store inventory; father’s appointment as co…
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