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DAFFRON, Phillip L. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
DAFFRON, Phillip L. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0363
His experiences at Schofield Barracks as an officer in the Field Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 09/02/1977
DAHLGREN, Kenneth O. (b. 1923)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. Bombing Squadron VMB-433.
DAHLGREN, Kenneth O. (b. 1923)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. Bombing Squadron VMB-433.Interview ID: OH 1450
Civil engineer. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) co-pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His early interest in aviation; enlistment in the Navy, April, 1942; and primary and secondary flight training through the Civilian Pilot Training Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota; pre-flight training, Iowa City, Iowa, 1942; designation as an Aviation Cadet; basic flight training, Minneapolis, 1942-43; advanced flight training, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1943; transition to multi-engine planes at Corpus Christi and his transfer to the Marine Corps, 1943; navigation school, Hollywood, Florida, 1943; transfer to Cherry Point, North Carolina, and assignment to VMB-433, September, 1943; crew formation and PBJ training at Cherry Point; advanced training, El Centro, California, January, 1944; his personal views on combat and the Japanese; stationing to Green Island, July, 1944; “night heckling” missions to Rabaul; assignment to Emirau; living conditions on Emirau; skip-bombing, strafing, and night bombing missions; rest and relaxation in Australia; rotation back to the States, May, 1945; his postwar career.
Date of Interview: 28/05/2002
DALE, Richard (b. 1955)
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran.
DALE, Richard (b. 1955)
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1672
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Marine Corps pilot. Childhood in Tennessee, Florida, and Dallas area; education at Baylor University and Texas A&M; decision to enter Marines aviation program; training at Camp Pendleton, California, Quantico, Virginia; officer candidate school; assignments to naval air stations at Pensacola, Florida; Kingsville, Texas; Lemoore, California; and Fort Worth; particulars of “tailhook” aviation; assignments to USS Kitty Hawk and USS Vinson; civilian career with Northwest Airlines.
Date of Interview: 26/11/2007
DAMAN, M. L. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
DAMAN, M. L. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0159
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Corregidor and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; 1942-43; Davao Penal Colony, 1943-44; Bellbird Prison, 1945; fall of Manila and liberation.
Date of Interview: 29/09/1973 to 06/10/1973
Interview ID: OH 0175
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 01/02/1974
DANIEL, James (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DANIEL, James (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0348
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Hull during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 02/12/1976
DANIEL, Murray (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DANIEL, Murray (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1331
His experiences while aboard the light cruiser USS Helena and during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his experiences aboard the Helena and the antiaircraft cruiser Reno in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to join the Navy, January, 1941; boot camp at San Diego, California; assignment to the Helena at Pearl Harbor; the peacetime Navy; his account of the Japanese attack; his activities in the immediate aftermath of the attack; various naval engagements around the Solomon Islands, October-November, 1942; the sinking of the Helena in the Kula Gulf, July 5, 1943; assignment to the Reno, April, 1944; damage to the Reno due to a kamikaze hit off Formosa, October, 1944; torpedoing of the Reno in the San Bernardino Strait, Philippine Islands, November 3, 1944; temporary repairs at Ulithi and voyage to Charleston, South Carolina; postwar effects of his experiences in World War II.
Date of Interview: 01/03/2000
DANIEL, Price (b. 1910)
Texas House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Texas Governor. Democrat.
DANIEL, Price (b. 1910)
Texas House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Texas Governor. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0349
Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, attorney general, and governor of Texas, 1956-63, United States Senator, 1953-57. Early years; election to Texas Legislature, 1938; O’Daniel gubernatorial campaign of 1938; transactions tax and the “Immortal 56”; reelection to the Legislature, 1940; O’Daniel senatorial race of 1941; impressions of Coke Stevenson; Speaker of the House, 1943; views on the role of the Speaker in the legislative process; campaign for attorney general, 1946; tidelands controversy; presidential elections of 1952 and 1956; election to the U.S. Senate, 1952; Democratic National Convention, 1952; decision to support Eisenhower; Tidelands Bill; continental shelf legislation; Gossett-Lodge Amendment; Natural Gas Act; Mccarthyism; school desegregation; narcotics legislation; evaluation of Dwight Eisenhower; Democratic State Convention of 1956; election as governor, 1956; problems with the Legislature; major legislative accomplishments.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1967 to 06/05/1967, 10/09/1968
DANIELS, Murphy (b. 1940)
DANIELS, Murphy (b. 1940)
Interview ID: OH 1580
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood and early education in Dallas, Texas; decision to enter NTSU in 1959 rather than Texas Southern University, and major in pre-med; difficulties with white professors and graduate assistants; race relations on campus; social life among black students on campus; off-campus life in “Shack Town” and support from black citizens of Denton; service in United States Air Force; studies at Southwestern Medical School and decision to pursue medical research;
Date of Interview: 04/04/2006
DANIELS, Rosa Lee (b. 1904)
DANIELS, Rosa Lee (b. 1904)
Interview ID: OH 0932
Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1910-21. School facilities; comments about her teachers; discipline; school equipment and facilities; segregation and Klan activities in Denton.
Date of Interview: 21/03/1992
DANNER, Dorothy S. (b. 1914)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps.
DANNER, Dorothy S. (b. 1914)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 1072
Her experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Santo Tomas, Manila, 1942-43; Los Banos, 1943-45
Date of Interview: 19/03/1995
DARDEN, Barbara J. (b. ca. 1933)
DARDEN, Barbara J. (b. ca. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 0916
Vocational nurse. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-91. Segregated education in Dallas; public housing in Dallas; decision to purchase home in Hamilton Park; Hamilton Park School; school desegregation; Pacesetter; Civic League; zoning problems; the “Buy Out”; traffic flow problems; Changes in Hamilton Park.
Date of Interview: 13/12/1990 to 26/10/1991
DARST, John E. (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DARST, John E. (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0300
His experiences while aboard the minelayer USS Sicard during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 03/03/1976
DAVIDSON, Jodi-Anne (b. 1984)
DAVIDSON, Jodi-Anne (b. 1984)
Interview ID: OH 2013
For the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Immigration Project. Childhood and family history in Jamaica; parents’ divorce; father’s decision to immigrate to the U.S. with two daughters; experiences with the U.S. immigration system; reminiscences of family life in Jamaica and Jamaican history.
Date of Interview: 14/11/2009
DAVIS PURITY BAKERY. Joint interview with Mrs. Anne Davis (b. 1918) and Don Davis (b. 1938)
DAVIS PURITY BAKERY. Joint interview with Mrs. Anne Davis (b. 1918) and Don Davis (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OHB 0033
DAVIS, Anne. Founder (with husband Jack T. Davis) of Davis purity Bakery, Denton, Texas. Family background; Depression; purchase of purity Bakery; early learning experiences; equipment; products; commercial and institutional accounts; business fluctuations; sugar crisis; pricing; typical workday; credit policies.
DAVIS, Don. Son of founder of Davis purity Bakery. Family background, education; early work in family bakery; learning experiences; military service; return to bakery after father’s death; family involvement in the business; growth of business; shortages, price fluctuations; government regulations; employment; reasons for company’s success.
Date of Interview: 07/10/1979
DAVIS, Elbert (b. ca. 1915)
DAVIS, Elbert (b. ca. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 0966
His recollections concerning the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining in southwest Arkansas, 1924-40.
Date of Interview: 23/01/1994
DAVIS, Glenn F. (b. 1924)
DAVIS, Glenn F. (b. 1924)
Interview ID: OH 0885
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Plano, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 894 in Golden, Colorado; Company 2896 at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas; Company 3811 in Floydada, Texas; and Company 3802 in Morton, Texas; company move to Kings Canyon National Park in Fresno, California; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 03/03/1993
DAVIS, Henry L. (b. 1915)
DAVIS, Henry L. (b. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 0873
His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Education and childhood; military service in World War II; marriage; employment with post office; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; church activities; Big Brothers involvement; presidency of Civic League; flood control measures; Civic League and community improvements; zoning controversies; integration with Richardson Independent School District; the “Buy Out.”
Date of Interview: 23/05/1990 to 25/05/1990, 31/05/1990
DAVIS, L. Clifford (b. 1924)
DAVIS, L. Clifford (b. 1924)
Interview ID: OH 1818
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Attorney and Civil Rights advocate. Childhood in Arkansas; life during segregation; high school in Little Rock’s Dunbar High School; involvement in University of Arkansas’s integration; politics in Arkansas surrounding the Central High School integration; law practice in Arkansas and Dallas-Fort Worth; Dallas-Fort Worth Civil Rights activity and legal cases.
Date of Interview: 11/04/2014
DAVIS, Leonard (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DAVIS, Leonard (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0375
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 23/03/1977
DAVIS, Margaret Hunt (b. 1946)
DAVIS, Margaret Hunt (b. 1946)
Interview ID: OH 1641
Alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood in rural East Texas; decision to attend North Texas; campus life; 1967 graduation with degree in library science; career in Dallas public schools.
Date of Interview: 30/04/2006
DAVIS, Oscar L. (b. 1919)
DAVIS, Oscar L. (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OH 0927
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Timpson, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2868 at Camp F-37-N in Dark Canyon, New Mexico; company move to Glorietta, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 06/03/1993
DAVIS, Truett L. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DAVIS, Truett L. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0414
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/03/1978
DAVIS, Wendy (b. 1958)
DAVIS, Wendy (b. 1958)
Interview ID: OH 2065
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Wendy Davis is a psychotherapist and psychologist, and executive director of Postpartum Support International (PSI). The interview centers on her history with maternal mental health/postpartum depression, her work running a support group in the 1980s (Baby Blues Connection in Portland, Oregon), and her involvement in Postpartum Support International. With PSI, she discusses her volunteer work as a state coordinator, her work on the board, and then her eventual hire as executive director (2009). Discusses the growth of PSI, and work fundraising and expanding the organization in 2010s. Mention of Jane Honikman, Depression After Delivery (DAD), Larry Kruckman, Wade Bowen, MOTHERS Act, Susan Dowd Stone, Carol Blocker, Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color, 2020 Mom, maternal mental health hotline, Jabina Coleman, Desirée Israel, Divya Kumar, Postpartum Progress.
Date of Interview: 07/10/2022
DAWSON, Margaret (b. 1944)
DAWSON, Margaret (b. 1944)
Interview ID: OH 0944
Her recollections concerning the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, 1951-62.
Date of Interview: 16/03/1993
DAY, Henry C. (b. 1914)
DAY, Henry C. (b. 1914)
Interview ID: OH 0839
Electrician, businessman. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Madeira Canyon, near Tucson, Arizona; camp move to Pitkin, Colorado; re-enlistment for a camp in Tucson, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 02/07/1991
DE COLIGNY, Henry (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DE COLIGNY, Henry (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0719
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the boathouse crew during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/11/1987
DE CORDOVA, Frances (b. 1919)
DE CORDOVA, Frances (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OH 0860
College professor. Her experiences concerning the development of the Library School at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, 1940-70; her personal career in library science.
Date of Interview: 07/02/1992
DE YOUNG, Nicholas (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DE YOUNG, Nicholas (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0741
His experiences while aboard the sea-going tug USS Bobolink during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/11/1987
DEAN, Alvin (b. 1915)
DEAN, Alvin (b. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 0804
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Madeira Canyon, near Tucson, Arizona; camp move to Pitkin, Colorado; re-enlistment for a camp in Tucson, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 17/09/1990
DECKARD, George (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
DECKARD, George (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0201
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 11th Signal Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 18/05/1974
DECKER, Paul (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DECKER, Paul (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0714
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/11/1987
DEFOOR, Ira T. (b. 1919)
DEFOOR, Ira T. (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OH 0601
College instructor. His experiences while equipment manager for the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 24/05/1983
DEI SANTI, Ben (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DEI SANTI, Ben (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0412
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Schley during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 21/04/1978
DEL REAL, Eva (b. 1971)
DEL REAL, Eva (b. 1971)
Interview ID: OH 1939
For the Mexican-American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Childhood memories of attending school; having children; attending college.
Date of Interview: 02/05/2013
DELANO, Victor (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DELANO, Victor (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1232
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. First assignment to the battleship USS West Virginia and his experiences during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to the antiaircraft cruiser USS San Juan, 1942; naval battles around Guadalcanal; Battle of Savo Island; assignment to the destroyer USS Wedderburn, 1944; Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944; Pacific typhoons; Iwo Jima and Okinawa operations, 1945.
Date of Interview: 13/03/1998
DELCO, Wilhelmina R. Fitzgerald (b. 1929)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.
DELCO, Wilhelmina R. Fitzgerald (b. 1929)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 1597
Former member of the Texas House of Representatives (D-Austin). Memories of childhood and education in all-black schools of Chicago, Illinois; family involvement in Chicago politics; education at Fisk University; marriage to Exalton A. Delco, Jr., and his experience as first African American Ph.D. student in biology at UT-Austin; Exalton Delco’s experience as a biology professor and administrator at Huston-Tillotson College in Austin; involvement in community issues, including PTA work, leading to decision to run for elected office; election to Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees in 1968; difficulty of desegregating Austin schools in a manner that shared resources equitably with all groups; 1974 election to Texas House of Representatives seat representing Travis County; service on Committee on Public Education and Committee on Higher Education; development of Black Caucus and Women’s Caucus in Texas Legislature; service of Speaker Pro Tem of the House; involvement in National Conference of State Legislatures, including efforts to encourage divestiture from apartheid-era South Africa; involvement in efforts to reform Texas higher education funding system; commitment to education as life’s work.
Date of Interview: 15/05/2006
DELIA, John N. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DELIA, John N. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0646
His experiences aboard YSD-19 (Yard Salvage Derrick) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/05/1984
DELLINGER, Chester (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DELLINGER, Chester (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0410
His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender USS Thornton during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 04/02/1978
DELLINGER, Mary Jane Essig (b. 1922)
DELLINGER, Mary Jane Essig (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1345
Factory worker. Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Pre-war work experience in silk mills; effects of the Great Depression on her family; her employment at the Hamilton Watch Company assembling time fuses for bombs, 1942; her marriage to Clair Dellinger, 1942; her personal motivations for seeking defense work; her decision to change jobs and work for Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, 1943; her work on the F4U Corsair fuselage assembly line; comments about sexual harassment; production incentives and awards; war bond drives; comments about shift work; transportation arrangements; her decision to quit, 1945.
Date of Interview: 26/05/2000
DELUNA, Nicole (b. 1981)
DELUNA, Nicole (b. 1981)
Interview ID: OH 1764
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Third generation of Bermejo women. Recollections for schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; meaning of high school graduation; reasons for not attending college; discussion of cultural expectations of Mexican American women; daughter’s educational plans; benefit of an education in the workplace.
Date of Interview: 17/03/2013
DEN DAAS, Donald (b. 1920)
Royal Netherlands Overseas Army WWII Veteran.
DEN DAAS, Donald (b. 1920)
Royal Netherlands Overseas Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1076
His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in the Netherlands East Indies during World War II. Fall of Java and imprisonment in Surabaja; torture by Kempei Tai; Bandung, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 19/03/1995
DENMON, Carl (b. 1938)
DENMON, Carl (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 1579
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood in Houston, Texas, and undergraduate education at Wiley College; employment as band director at Fred Moore High School in Denton; graduate studies in Music, and then in Education, at NTSU; career with and retirement from Dallas County Community College; perceptions of changes in Denton and at North Texas over forty years; experiences of wife, Gloria, and daughter, Debbie Denmon, at North Texas.
Date of Interview: 08/04/2006
DENMON, Debbie (b. 1967)
DENMON, Debbie (b. 1967)
Interview ID: OH 1634
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Local news media personality and third-generation descendant of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Childhood in Denton; education in Denton public schools and at UNT; career in broadcast journalism; memories of great-grandmother Othella Hill, great-grandfather “Dollar Bill” Hill, and grandmother Norvell Williams Reed; reporting on local efforts to capture Quakertown history.
Date of Interview: 04/12/2006
DENMON, Gloria (b. 1941)
DENMON, Gloria (b. 1941)
Interview ID: OH 0739
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Life in A segregated society; decision to join the Fellowship; early meetings; voter registration drives; street paving in African-American section of Denton; social activities of Fellowship; desegregation of public schools; tutoring program; activities of African-American churches.
Date of Interview: 12/05/1988
DENTON ROOFING AND METAL WORKS. Interviews with Ezrum Massey (b. 1905), Pat Bomar (b. 1940), and Linda Bomar (b. 1941)
Denton Roofing and Metal Works.
DENTON ROOFING AND METAL WORKS. Interviews with Ezrum Massey (b. 1905), Pat Bomar (b. 1940), and Linda Bomar (b. 1941)
Denton Roofing and Metal Works.Interview ID: OHB 0016
MASSEY, Ezrum. Founder, Denton Roofing and Metal Works. Schooling and early life; construction and other work background; service in Army and sheet metal experiences there; start of partnership in roofing and sheet metal work; equipment and supply problems during World War II; growth of sales, equipment, facilities, employees; methods of financing; problems of finding, training, keeping skilled workers; views on expansion, company success, competition; sale of business to Bomars.
BOMAR, Pat and Linda (joint interview). Owners and operators, Denton Roofing and Metal Works. Family backgrounds, education; early work experiences; his work experiences in carpentry, air conditioning, refrigeration, roofing, and sheet metal; purchase of business from Ezrum Massey; employee problems; importance of being self-employed.
Date of Interview: 24/05/1978
DENTON, William A. (b. 1918)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
DENTON, William A. (b. 1918)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1122
His experiences with the 2nd Motor Transport Battalion at the Marine barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/12/1995
DETRE, George E. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DETRE, George E. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0475
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 Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Singapore, 1944-45; hell ship to Japan, 1945; coal mining at Senju, Kyushu, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 17/08/1978
DEVINE, John D. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
DEVINE, John D. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0529
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/12/1980
DICKINSON, Mary (b. 1980)
Perkins & Will. Dallas TX.
DICKINSON, Mary (b. 1980)
Perkins & Will. Dallas TX.Interview ID: OH 1989 Dickinson, Mary
As the Regional Sustainable Design Leader for the Texas offices of Perkins and Will, a member of the firm’s Sustainable Design Council, and Co-Director with Max Richter of the Materials Performance Research Lab, Mary Dickinson integrates research thinking, advanced sustainable technologies, healthy material protocols, and evidence-based processes across the firm’s practice. Her lifelong interests in nature, the environment, health, and science are characterized by questions she has raised throughout her career. As an interior design major studying materials she began by asking, “What is it made of?” Working with Perkins and Will leaders, other issues arose, “How do we find the toxicants in materials?” Also, as she describes, the genome is how your body is affected by your genes, and the exposome is how you are affected by your environment. Now she and her colleagues are investigating the impact the built environment has on this dynamic. Mary has worked to develop information methodologies that enable designers to make healthy product recommendations to a client. First launched in 2009, the Perkins and Will Precautionary List identifies substances that have known or suspected health impacts for humans and the built environment. It is an example of transparency on multiple levels. The List continues to be updated as a result of communication between design professionals, researchers, and manufacturers. The platform’s content will always be publicly available to all.
Date of Interview: 25/06/2019
DICKSON, Karen (b. 1963)
Denton Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Partnership.
DICKSON, Karen (b. 1963)
Denton Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Partnership.Interview ID: OH 1928
Her education and background in entering the field of economic development; work history; living in Denton and Denton’s economic development; Denton Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Partnership Vice President.
Date of Interview: 01/04/2013
DIES, Martin (b. 1900)
U.S. Congressman.
DIES, Martin (b. 1900)
U.S. Congressman.Interview ID: OH 0005
Attorney, former U.S. Congressman from Lufkin. Experiences as a Texas politician and U. S. Congressman, 1931-46, 1950-56; chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities during New Deal; views on communism.
Date of Interview: 23/04/1966
DIETERICH, Arthur (b. 1900) and Louise (b. 1901)
Hermosa Farms in Dallas.
DIETERICH, Arthur (b. 1900) and Louise (b. 1901)
Hermosa Farms in Dallas.Interview ID: OHB 0096
Owners and operators of Hermosa Farms, Dallas, Texas. Louise’s family background; Reverchon family settlement in Dallas; farming in Dallas; education at Texas Woman’s University; Arthur’s family background; father’s employment with Sanger Brothers and as dairy farmer; description of Dallas Flood, 1908; work on father’s farm; athletic accomplishments at Texas A&M; employment as operator of dairy cooperative with brother in El Paso, Texas, 1922; establishment of Hermosa Farms, 1928; effect of Depression on Dallas dairy businesses; description of milk processing and delivery operations; comments on dairy, poultry, and meat products; description of typical day on dairy farm; moving of operation to Dorchester, Texas, 1947; change from retail to wholesale dairy business; comments on developing dairy herd; cooperation with agricultural experiment stations; experience with dairy cooperative in Dorchester; personnel practices; sale of Dorchester farm; civic and trade association activities.
Date of Interview: 11/08/1985
DIETZ, James (b. 1938)
DIETZ, James (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 1082
Physician. His recollections of the Kaiser Permanente-Prudential Insurance company joint venture in health care, 1981-95; the Texas Plan, its problems in getting established.
Date of Interview: 19/09/1995
DILLINGHAM, John L. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DILLINGHAM, John L. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1116
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Hull during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/12/1995
DILLON, Joe C. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DILLON, Joe C. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0508
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/06/1980
DILLON, Paul (b. 1913)
DILLON, Paul (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 0995
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1381 at Camp S-112 near Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 03/11/1993
DINN, Wallace L. (b. 1885)
W. L. Dinn & Company Insurance. Inc.
DINN, Wallace L. (b. 1885)
W. L. Dinn & Company Insurance. Inc.Interview ID: OHB 0058
Founder, W. L. Dinn & Company Insurance, Inc., Corpus Christi, Texas. Family background; work as ranchhand in Live Oak, Texas; employment as bookkeeper in Alice and Corpus Christi; entry into life insurance sales, 1920; land development in Corpus Christi, 1926; growth of insurance company personnel and coverage; description of administrative personnel; civic activities; views on qualities necessary to develop successful business.
Date of Interview: 14/05/1981
DITTO, Lanson B. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Langley. USS O’Bannon. USS O’Toole.
DITTO, Lanson B. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Langley. USS O’Bannon. USS O’Toole.Interview ID: OH 1360
Clothier. His experiences in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II. Education; enlistment in the Navy V-7 Program, 1940; midshipman training, 1940-41; assignment to the USS Langley, 1941; pre-war duty in the Philippines; coming of war and combat around the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, 1941-42; sinking of the Langley, February 27, 1942, and his transfer to the USS Pecos; sinking of the Pecos, March 1, 1942, and his rescue by the USS Whipple; his return to the States and assignment to the USS O’Bannon, March, 1942; various naval battles around the Solomon Islands, 1942-43; Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, November 13, 1942; antisubmarine patrols off the Solomons, 1942-43; his return to the States and transfer to the USS O’Toole, January 22, 1944; escort duty in the North Atlantic, 1944-45; escort duty in the Mediterranean, 1945; his promotion to captain of the O’Toole, October, 1945.
Date of Interview: 11/10/1996
DITTUS, Frederick W. (b. 1897)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.
DITTUS, Frederick W. (b. 1897)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.Interview ID: OH 0675
Executive. Education; early job experience with Standard Oil Company of California; Dittus-Boelter equation; pre-World War II experiences in Nazi Germany; construction of the Bahrain refinery for Bapco; formation of Caltex, 1936; transfer to Caltex; activities during World War II; postwar refinery expansion; evolution of Technical Services Division.
Date of Interview: 13/09/1985
DIX, Carol (b. 1946)
DIX, Carol (b. 1946)
Interview ID: OH 2047
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Carol Dix is a journalist who wrote ten books on topics like young womanhood, miscarriage, and writing. This interview focuses on her popular 1985 book The New Mother Syndrome, and her personal involvement with postpartum depression/maternal mental health advocacy with people like Nancy Berchtold and Jane Honikman, as well as with the Marcé Society and James Hamilton. She discusses her own postpartum, her reasons for writing this book, and her experience with media appearances and book publicity.
Date of Interview: 29/03/2021
DIXON, Pauline (b. 1929)
DIXON, Pauline (b. 1929)
Interview ID: OH 0868
Beautician, schoolteacher, community leader. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1954-90. Youth in East Texas; education at Bishop College; president of Classroom Teachers of Dallas; activities with Texas State Teachers Association; decision to move to Hamilton Park; African-American housing problems in Dallas; home maintenance and improvements; social organizations; church activities; Civic League; Hamilton Park School; zoning problems; the “Buy Out”; Interorganizational Council; desegregation and closing of junior high and high school; Pacesetter; political activities.
Date of Interview: 09/08/1990 to 15/08/1990
DOBBINS, Clarence C. (b. 1912)
DOBBINS, Clarence C. (b. 1912)
Interview ID: OH 0888
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 869 in Farmersville, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 21/02/1993
DODGE, Arthur (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Company M. 350th Regiment. 88th Division.
DODGE, Arthur (b. 1923)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Company M. 350th Regiment. 88th Division.Interview ID: OH 0074
Business executive. His experiences as a combat infantryman in Italy during World War II. Operations around Minturno; liberation of Rome; audience with Pope Pius XII; operations around Arno River; receiving battlefield commission; Po valley Campaign and fall of Verona; German surrender.
Date of Interview: 08/01/1971
DOLAN, Frank L. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DOLAN, Frank L. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1111
His experiences aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/12/1995
DONIHI, Robert (b. ca. 1918)
DONIHI, Robert (b. ca. 1918)
Interview ID: OH 1283
Attorney. His role and experiences as a prosecuting attorney at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East [Tokyo War Crimes Trials], 1945-46. His early law career; acquaintanceship with U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark and appointment to the Tribunal; the organization of the Tribunal and comments about the representatives on it; his role with the International Prosecution Section; his account of the suicide of Prince Fumimaro Konoye; his role in the interrogation of potential war criminals; his investigation of thought control measures employed by the Japanese in preparing their countrymen for war; intrigue and rivalries among the American delegation; interrogation and trial of General Hideki Tojo; relations with the Soviet delegation; his personal observations about current official Japanese denial of their committing of war crimes during World War II.
Date of Interview: 13/10/1996
DONLEY, Richard (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol Torpedo Boat Squadron 15.
DONLEY, Richard (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol Torpedo Boat Squadron 15.Interview ID: OH 1370
His experiences in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy and boot camp at San Diego Naval Training Station, 1942; Fleet Torpedo School, San Diego, 1942; Motor Torpedo Boats Squadron Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island, 1942; assignment to PT Squadron 15, January, 1943; stationing at Bone, Tunisia, 1943; screening operations for the invasion of Sicily, 1943; transfer to Palermo, 1943, and the interception of German barge traffic; encounters with German “F-lighter” armed barges and E-boats; screening operations for the invasion of Salerno, 1943; assignment to the advance base at Bastia, Corsica, 1943; operations along the coasts of northern Italy and southern France and the interdiction of German barge traffic; torpedo problems; commando and intelligence operations; combat against enemy destroyers; his return to the States, July, 1944, and reassignment to the Motor Torpedo Boats Training Center; transfer to Samar, Philippines, April, 1945.
Date of Interview: 22/02/1997
DONSKY, Nathan (b. 1906)
Nathan’s Jewelers.
DONSKY, Nathan (b. 1906)
Nathan’s Jewelers.Interview ID: OHB 0073
Founder and owner, Nathan’s Jewelers, San Angelo, Texas; and co-owner of Sterling Jewelry & Distributing Company, Dallas and Houston, Texas. Family background; description of fire at Gardner Park, Dallas; employment as secretary for Dallas lawyer Alvin M. Owsley; establishment of Ray Don concessions, San Angelo, 1928; employment in dry goods stores in Forsan, Texas and Hobbs, New Mexico, 1930; co-owner of pawn shop in San Angelo; opening of Nathan’s Jewelers, 1938; discussion of profit margin; opening of stores in Brownwood, Big Spring, Odessa, Paris, and Denison, 1940s; involvement with 4-H, FFA, and area sports teams; comments on scholarship funding and athletic scoreboard donations; discussion of operation of branch stores; brother’s founding of Sterling Jewelry & Distributing Company, 1948; Nathan’s Jewelers promotional activities; expansion of San Angelo store; discussion of credit business; experiences during Depression; comments on personnel; market share in Texas; expansion of Sterling Jewelry & Distributing Company; personnel practices; civic and trade association activities; factors in developing successful business.
Date of Interview: 11/09/1982
DORESS-WORTERS, Paula (b. 1938)
DORESS-WORTERS, Paula (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 2027
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Paula Doress-Worters was a founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969). She wrote the chapter on the postpartum in their booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and then in the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970), She discusses her own postpartum illness and hospitalization in 1966, her experience with the Boston Women’s Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Date of Interview: 10/02/2020
DOUGHERTY, Russell E. (b. 1920)
U.S. Air Force Veteran.
DOUGHERTY, Russell E. (b. 1920)
U.S. Air Force Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1558
Former commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command (SAC). His experiences and association with General Curtis LeMay. LeMay’s uncanny judgment; LeMay’s handling of people in his command; LeMay’s penchant for discipline; the Soviet military’s assessment of LeMay; testing Soviet air defenses; LeMay’s organizational talents.
Date of Interview: 24/05/2004
DOUGLAS, Griff (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DOUGLAS, Griff (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0425
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; Prachin Buri, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 18/04/1978
DRAKE, Edward J. (b. 1924)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 401st Bomb Squadron. 91st Bomb Group. 1st Air Division. 8th Air Force.
DRAKE, Edward J. (b. 1924)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 401st Bomb Squadron. 91st Bomb Group. 1st Air Division. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1468
Attorney. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His youth and education in Dallas, Texas; matriculation to the University of Texas, 1941; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, December, 1941; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; pre-flight training and college preparatory program, Stevens Point State Teachers College, Wisconsin, 1943; advanced basic training, Santa Ana Army Air Field, California, 1943; primary flight training, Blythe, California, 1943; basic flight training, Lemoore, California, 1943; advanced flight training, La Junta, Colorado, 1943-44; B-17 transition training, Hobbs, New Mexico, 1944; crew formation, MacDill Field, Florida, 1944; crew training, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1944; flight from Gander, Newfoundland, to Prestwick, Scotland, December, 1944; assignment to the 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn, England, January, 1945; his description of the routine for a typical mission; his description of formation flying; his description of flying through enemy flak; rest and relaxation on-base and in London; bombing of transportation facilities during and after the Ardennes Offensive, January-February, 1945; area bombing mission to Berlin, February 7, 1945; mission to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and his plane being hit and crash-landing in Belgium, February 14, 1945; linking up with American troops and return to England; recuperation from a collapsed lung; his return to combat for three more missions; his return to the crash site of his plane fifty-seven years later.
Date of Interview: 16/10/2002 to 27/10/2002
DRAWE, Billy (b. 1923)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion.
DRAWE, Billy (b. 1923)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion.Interview ID: OH 1397
Dairyman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment and boot camp, San Diego, California, 1942-43; tank training, El Cajon, California, 1943; tank mechanics school, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1943; assignment as a replacement to the 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion at Guadalcanal, 1944; invasion of Guam, July-August, 1944; reminiscences of coming under Japanese mortar fire on Guam; invasion of Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945; his role in hauling supplies ashore to the infantry on Iwo Jima; his return to the States for training in the V-12 Program, June, 1945.
Date of Interview: 13/06/2000
DREYSPRING, Dulcie (b. 1934)
DREYSPRING, Dulcie (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 1747
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Australian-born immigrant to Fort Worth, Texas. Childhood in Australia; interaction with American soldiers during World War II; Japanese invasion of Australia; first visit to the U.S.; first impressions of America; first marriage to an American; return to Australia for immigration process; impressions of various American cities; views on American identity; siblings in Australia; reasons for moving to Fort Worth; second marriage to an American airman; being a military wife; adopting Texan culture; advice for future immigrants.
Date of Interview: 04/12/2012
DRISCOLL, Jeanne Watson (b.)
DRISCOLL, Jeanne Watson (b.)
Interview ID: OH 2066
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Jeanne Watson Driscoll is a retired clinical nurse scientist with a focus on postpartum mental health. She discusses her own history of postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in the 1970s, her work in breastfeeding counseling and the Boston Association of Childbirth Education, her training in interpersonal psychology, and her work teaching childbirth education in the 1970s and 1980s. She discusses her introduction to Depression After Delivery (DAD) and Nancy Berchtold in 1986, as well as interactions with James Hamilton, Cheryl Beck, Lee Cohen, Ellen Story, Wendy Davis, Deborah Sichel, Jane Honikman. Driscoll then focuses on her role in Postpartum Support International (PSI) as well as her work in private practice, her relationship with health insurance.
Date of Interview: 30/01/2023
DRIVER, James (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DRIVER, James (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1390
His experiences as a dive-bomber and fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; various phases of training, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida; dive-bomber training, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Great Lakes Naval Air Station, 1942-43; assignment to VS-55, New Hebrides, 1943; convoy escort duty off New Hebrides; neutralization of Rabaul, 1944; return to the States, 1944; transfer to fighter planes; assignment to Air Group 6 as a F6F Hellcat pilot, Santa Rosa, California, 1944; experiences while flying combat air patrol off the carrier USS Hancock, 1944-45; providing cover for the Marine landings on Okinawa, April, 1945; combat against kamikazes; typhoon of June, 1945, off Okinawa; engagements against enemy fighters and kamikazes on the last day of the war; locating and dropping supplies to prisoner-of-war camps in Japan; return to the States and postwar activities.
Date of Interview: 21/03/1999
DuBOSE, Edwin (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol-Torpedo Boat Squadrons 15 and 33.
DuBOSE, Edwin (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol-Torpedo Boat Squadrons 15 and 33.Interview ID: OH 1303
His experiences in the North African, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Northwestern Midshipman School, 1941-42; Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island, 1942; assignment to PT Squadron 15, 1942; operations along the Algerian and Tunisian coasts, 1942-43; invasion of Sicily, 1943; interdiction of German F-lighters and E-boats off the Italian coast; combat against German flak-lighters; invasion of southern France, 1944; operations with the OSS; transfer to PT Squadron 33, 1945; PT operations around the Philippines; preparations for the invasion of the Japanese home islands; personal contacts with and comments about General Douglas A. MacArthur and General George S. Patton.
Date of Interview: 21/02/1997
DUBROFF, John (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
DUBROFF, John (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0212
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 11th Signal Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 19/05/1974
DUELL, Hollis G. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DUELL, Hollis G. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1164
His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the Sargo, 1941; his responsibilities as a yeoman; early war patrols off the Netherlands East Indies and Philippines; transfer to the Submarine Division Commander’s Office, Pearl Harbor, 1944; postwar duty in the Submarine Service.
Date of Interview: 22/05/1996
DUKE, Wallace “Tim” (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 86th Infantry.
DUKE, Wallace “Tim” (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 86th Infantry.Interview ID: OH 1856
Retired Santa Fe Railroad agent. Childhood in rural North Texas; the Great Depression; war work at Consolidated Steel Shipyard; draft into infantry; training at Camp Howze and Camp Livingston; European Theater; push from Cologne to Altena, Germany; the Ruhr Pocket; push into Austria; V-E Day; reassignment to Pacific Theater; Philippines; post-war work experience; post-war life in Dallas.
Date of Interview: 17/12/2015
DUNCAN, George (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DUNCAN, George (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1030
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pilot training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, 1941; assignment to Air Group 9 on the carrier Essex; discussion of Hellcat fighter; sinking of Fubuki-class destroyer, June, 1944, off Pagan Island; Marianas Campaign, 1944; “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”; Philippines Campaign and attack on Japanese battleship Musashi; postwar naval career,
Date of Interview: 09/10/1994
DUNCAN, Kenneth W. (b. 1923)
DUNCAN, Kenneth W. (b. 1923)
Interview ID: OH 0960
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Redvale, Colorado; camp move to Paradox Valley, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 09/03/1994
DUNCAN, Pat P. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DUNCAN, Pat P. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0367
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Raleigh during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 12/02/1977
DUNGAN, Ross (b. 1914)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
DUNGAN, Ross (b. 1914)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0380
His experiences at Fort Weaver with A Battery, 14th Coast Artillery, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 11/07/1977
DUNKINS, Dennis (b. 1940)
DUNKINS, Dennis (b. 1940)
Interview ID: OH 1588
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood and early education in Fort Worth, Texas; decision to enroll at North Texas in 1958; 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; decision to major in Industrial Technology and graduation in 1963; efforts to desegregate public facilities in Denton; summer jobs with Texas & Pacific Railroad Company; career with General Motors, as business owner, and with Fort Worth ISD.
Date of Interview: 08/03/2006
DUNN, A. J. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DUNN, A. J. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0431
His experiences while aboard the heavy minelayer USS Ogallala during the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 09/07/1978
DUNN, E. Benjamin (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
DUNN, E. Benjamin (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1329
Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Basic training and assignment to the 26th Field Artillery Brigade, 1941; transfer to Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, 1942; fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 16/11/1999
DUNN, Marvin (b. 1931)
U.S. Marine Corps Korean War Veteran.
DUNN, Marvin (b. 1931)
U.S. Marine Corps Korean War Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1717
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Decision to drop out of college to join the U.S. Marine Corps; boot camp and training; assignment to combat unit; combat in Korea; combat at Hill 749 and Hill 884; battlefield injury at “the Punchbowl” that resulted in leg amputation; recuperation; opinions regarding enemy soldiers and what the U.S. accomplished in the war; civilian opinions of the war; struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder; return to college and graduate school; career as teacher, principal, and administrator in Dallas ISD; involvement with Korean War Veterans Organization
Date of Interview: 11/10/2007
DUNNEWOLD, Ann (b. 1955)
DUNNEWOLD, Ann (b. 1955)
Interview ID: OH 2048
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Ann Dunnewold her training in psychology, her own postpartum depression, and her entry into clinical work in maternal mental health. She discusses her introduction to Postpartum Support International in 1990, and her later presidency of the organization. She discusses other figures in postpartum activism, including Jane Honikman, Diane Sanford, and Susan Hickman. She explains changing ideas of postpartum psychology, especially the idea of self-care. Dunnewold discusses her books, including The Postpartum Survival Guide (1994) and Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box (2007).
Date of Interview: 21/04/2021
DUNPHY, William (b. 1939)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.
DUNPHY, William (b. 1939)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 1197
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Assignment to an Army hospital in Saigon; personal living accommodations and creature comforts; hospital facilities; relationship between doctors and nurses; work schedules; alcohol abuse by military personnel; drug problems; off-duty activities; rest and recuperation trip to Hawaii; relations with Vietnamese civilians in Saigon; post-Vietnam adjustments.
Date of Interview: 31/08/1997
DUPREE, A. W. (b. 1923)
DUPREE, A. W. (b. 1923)
Interview ID: OH 0842
His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1966-90. Youth in Dallas; service in U.S. military in World War II; musical career; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; Pacesetter; commercial encroachment; the “Buy Out.”
Date of Interview: 23/07/1990 to 16/08/1990
DUQUE, Ada Fabiana (b. 1976)
DUQUE, Ada Fabiana (b. 1976)
Interview ID: OH 1746
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Colombian-born immigrant to Rockwall, Texas. Family background and the risks that accompanied being financially successful in Colombia during the Colombian civil war. Guerrilla violence in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s; experience as an exchange student to Illinois in 1992; expectations about the U.S.; education and employment in food engineering; process of acquiring citizenship through political asylum; comments about travel, both domestic and abroad; learning English; opinions about U.S. immigration policy and cultural assimilation; reflections on American identity.
Date of Interview: 20/10/2012
DURÁN, Raúl (b. 1955)
DURÁN, Raúl (b. 1955)
Interview ID: OH 1821
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Career Navigator for the Empowering Families Project (Catholic Charities) and Hispanic community activist. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; witnessing discrimination against African Americans; navigating an Anglo-dominated world as a Mexican American; experiencing discrimination; participation in LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens); activism for educational attainment in Fort Worth’s Hispanic community, with Anglos as Chicano politics; self-identifying as Mexicano; work with Catholic Charities.
Date of Interview: 25/04/2014
DURAND, Claudio (b. 1938)
DURAND, Claudio (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 1846
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Argentinian-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas; Entrepreneur and businessman. Childhood in Buenos Aires; educational and work history; living in Puerto Rico; visits to New York; immigration process; differences between Argentina and the United States; becoming American; thoughts on current immigration laws.
Date of Interview: 30/10/2012
DUREN, Elmer (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DUREN, Elmer (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0608
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dale during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/10/1983
DUVALL, Robert D. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
DUVALL, Robert D. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0312
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 12/04/1976
DYER, Lorraine (b. 1940)
DYER, Lorraine (b. 1940)
Interview ID: OH 1881
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood in Maine; memories of the Nearings; homesteading.
Date of Interview: 05/08/2015
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