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OH 1446
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Cotton gin foreman. His comments and observations about changing patterns of cotton production and cotton gin operations in Denton County, Texas, 1960-1987. Processes for separating trash, lint, and seeds; changing technology for ginning operations; the Massey gin’s role in marketing cotton;…
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HUDSPETH, C. M. (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0989
His experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea, New Caledonia; intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages; ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s plane, 1943.
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OH 2107

For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Denton political activist and NAACP leader. Childhood and education in Fort Worth, experiences with racial segregation, Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force, experiences as a UNT student and a public school teacher and coach. Denton civil rights campaigns and campaign to remove the Confederate soldier…

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OH 1583
African-American alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas, and education in all-black public schools, including I.M. Terrell Senior High School; decision to enroll on scholarship at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, in Fall 1961; inability to continue at Paine and decision to enroll at NTSU in Fall 1962; experience…
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HUFF, C. B. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0561
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with Headquarters Battery, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1408
Educator. Her recollections concerning her association with Drs. Margaret Griffin and Rose Spicola, long-time professors of reading at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Their rapport with students; their role in the establishment of the Reading Recovery Program; their contributions to reading instruction.
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HUFFMAN, James W. (b. 1916) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0818
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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai, Thailand…
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OH 0813
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Lancaster, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2852 at SCS-1580 near Tucson, Arizona; reassignment to Company 3810 in Dublin, Texas; company move to Monument, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.
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HUGHES, Robert C. (b. 1918) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0456
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HUGHES, Sarah T. (b. 1896) Texas House of Representatives; District Judge Democrat

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OH 0027
Former state legislator, state district judge, federal district judge. Her experiences and views as a member of the Texas House of Representatives; appointment as state district judge by Governor James Allred; unsuccessful congressional campaign, 1956; nomination for the Vice-Presidency, 1952; Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign, 1956; women’s…
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OH 0489
Her experiences and personal views concerning the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, the Dallas County Jail, the constitutionality of abortion, and the desegregation of the Dallas Independent School District.
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HUGHES, W. W. (b. 1918) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 3rd Platoon, A Troop, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

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OH 1554
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His boyhood in Dallas, Texas, during the Great Depression; his decision to join the Texas National Guard, in 1940; caring for the troop’s horses at Fort Bliss and Fort Clark, Texas; Louisiana Maneuvers, 1941; assignment to New Caledonia, 1942; invasion of Arawe, New Britain,…
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HUGHES, William E. (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0616
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0881
Truck driver. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1806 at Turner Falls, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.
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HUNT, Edwin C. (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1102
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HUNT, Ray (b. 1919) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 1074
His experiences as a guerrilla fighter in the Philippines during World War II. His escape during the Bataan Death March; guerrilla operations before and after the American landings on Leyte and Luzon, 1944.
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OH 1793
African American Historian and Sportswriter. Childhood in Texarkana and Houston; enlistment in the U.S. Air Force; journalism career; growth of African American history; Juneteenth; African American history in Texas.
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OH 2038
Susan Huston speaks about her fifty-year career serving as a model, stylist, runway producer, and workshop creator. Early on, Huston participated in pageants and later attended Bauder Fashion College in Arlington, Texas. Her career expanded to include many facets of the fashion industry, notable starting a “charm school” program at Leonard’s…
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OH 1406
Businessman. Experiences of the Hutchen family after its move from Mississippi to Gary, Indiana, 1930-1950.
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OH 1533
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. Conflicts with his parents about the counterculture of the 1960s; his youth in Springfield, Missouri; his high school experiences and friends; his attractions to the counterculture; influence of the Beatles and the “…
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OH 1827
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Vietnamese-born immigrant to Carrollton, Texas. Childhood in Vietnam; memories of Vietnam War; experiences as a helicopter pilot for the South Vietnamese Army; evacuation to Guam; transfer to the U.S.; life in America; culture shock; settlement in Dallas-Fort Worth area; immigration process…
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HYDER, T. Bullock (b. 1907) Texas Legislature Democrat

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OH 0079
College professor, former member of the Texas Legislature, from Denton, Democrat. Reminiscences from his tenure in the Texas House of Representatives, 1932-38. Assistant reading clerk; first legislative race, 1932; comments on former Governors Ross Sterling, James and Miriam Ferguson, James Allred, W. Lee O’Daniel, Coke Stevenson, Beauford Jester…
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