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KAMENICKY, Albert L. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KAMENICKY, Albert L. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0816
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/04/1990
KAMMEYER, Robert A. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 39th Fighter Squadron. 35th Fighter Group. 5th Air Force.
KAMMEYER, Robert A. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 39th Fighter Squadron. 35th Fighter Group. 5th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1385
His experiences as a P-51 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to enlist, February, 1943; basic training, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 1943; college preparatory courses, Michigan State College, East Lansing, 1943; pre-flight training, Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; primary flight training, Vernon, Texas, 1943; basic flight training, Enid, Oklahoma, 1943-44; single-engine advanced training, Foster Field, Victoria, Texas, 1944; gunnery and tactics schooling, Harding Field, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1944; advanced fighter pilot training, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 1944-45; assignment to Nadzab, New Guinea, 1945; transition to the P-51; ground-support missions for Australian troops; transfer to the 39th Fighter Squadron at Clark Field, Luzon, 1945; ground-support missions in the Philippines; transfer to Okinawa, July, 1945; bomber escort missions over Japan; fighter sweeps over the Japanese home islands; missions to China; celebrations following VJ-Day; transfer to the 159th Liaison Squadron, 3rd Air Commando Group; occupation of Japan and visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki; relations with Japanese civilians; separation from the military, May, 1946, and adjustments to civilian life.
Date of Interview: 23/10/2000
KAMP, H. W. (b. 1922)
KAMP, H. W. (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1097
College professor. His experiences concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56.
Date of Interview: 10/10/1995
KAMPMANN, Ike (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
KAMPMANN, Ike (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1278
Attorney. His role as the defending attorney for four Japanese soldiers accused of spying during the Philippines Campaign, 1944-45. Assignment to 6th Army Headquarters and appointment as defense attorney by General Walter Krueger; description of the trial proceedings; conviction and execution of the accused Japanese soldiers; personal doubts about the fairness of the trial
Date of Interview: 12/10/1996
KANADY, Billy Don (b. 1937)
KANADY, Billy Don (b. 1937)
Interview ID: OH 1626
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former textile mill worker. Childhood in Van Alstyne and McKinney, Texas; his own and father’s work at Texas Textile mill; life in “mill block” housing; 1948 tornado and family’s year spent in Waco as textile mill was rebuilt; social and economic life in McKinney.
Date of Interview: 24/10/2006
KANAMAN, James R. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KANAMAN, James R. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0382
His experiences while aboard the destroyer-minelayer USS Tracy during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 19/09/1977
KARIEL, Audrey Daniels (b.1931)
KARIEL, Audrey Daniels (b.1931)
Interview ID: OH 2059
Elected first woman mayor of Marshall, Texas, in 1994. Her legacy of work, fund-raising and restoration efforts in Marshall and East Texas. Accomplishments include founding the Marshall Public Library, construction of the Marshall Civic Center Auditorium and the restoration of the Harrison County Courthouse. Kariel tells of her life-long commitment and duties in civic and cultural leadership and preservation and in transportation issues affecting East Texas, serving on a variety of local and regional transportation committees. More information on Mrs. Kariel's works, accolades and accomplishments can be found at the Briscoe Center for American History in Austin, TX and the Harrison County Historical Museum in Marshall, TX.
Date of Interview: 06/08/2019
KARR, Anne Pearsall (b. 1923)
KARR, Anne Pearsall (b. 1923)
Interview ID: OH 1180
Her experiences on the homefront during World War II. Youth in Elgin, Illinois; effects of Depression on Pearsall family; college at Iowa State; courtship with Kenneth Karr, her future husband; reaction to Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; changes on Iowa State campus after American entry into World War II; wartime rationing and Victory Gardens; effects on Pearsall family having a son and daughter in military service; her marriage to Kenneth Karr, early 1944; housing shortage in Corpus Christi, Texas, during World War II; birth of their daughter; wartime entertainment; experiences as a military wife; attitudes toward the Japanese; husband's training as a naval air cadet at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station.
Date of Interview: 22/06/1997
KASPAR WIRE WORKS. Interviews with Arthur H. Kaspar (b. 1900) and Don G. Kaspar (b. 1928)
KASPAR WIRE WORKS. Interviews with Arthur H. Kaspar (b. 1900) and Don G. Kaspar (b. 1928)
Interview ID: OHB 0037
KASPAR, Arthur H. Chairman of the board, Kaspar Wire Works. Family background; father’s wire basket business in Shiner, Texas; expansion of business in 1920s; sales trips using Model T; addition of coat hangers to products list; development of spot welding, 1929; success of florist wire easels and swimming pool basket products; building of plant, 1932; development of custom work; effects of Depression; product inclusion in national catalog, 1935; addition of shopping basket line, 1936; civilian products shutdown and wartime contracts, 1940s; financing of business; civic activities in Shiner.
KASPAR, Don G. President, Kaspar Wire Works. Description of Shiner, Texas, 1930s; Korean War experience; work as sales manager at plant; addition of newspaper racks and wire computer parts to products line; activities and incorporation of Kaspar Wire Works, Kaspar Properties, Kaspar Electroplating, Kaspar Die and Tool; corporate structure; personnel practices; views on government regulations; prospects for corporate growth; civic activities in Shiner.
Date of Interview: 07/01/1980
KASTER, James (b. 1933)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.
KASTER, James (b. 1933)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0085
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; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 12/08/1971
Interview ID: OH 0153
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Texas Legislature. Freshmen legislators; reform legislation; appropriations; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 15/06/1973
Interview ID: OH 0274
Banker, travel agent, pilot, member of the Texas House of Representatives from El Paso, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Texas Legislature. Comments about Speaker Bill Clayton; House speakership race; committee assignments; constitutional revision; public school financing; public utilities legislation; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 23/06/1975
Interview ID: OH 0562
His experiences and personal views as the governor’s legislative liaison during the Sixty-seventh Texas Legislature. His appointment as legislative liaison; comments about Governor William Clements; legislative strategy; law-and-order legislation; initiative-referendum; curriculum revision bill; redistricting; state water plan; comments about Speaker Bill Clayton and Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1982
KEATHLEY, E. Maurice (b. 1933)
KEATHLEY, E. Maurice (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 1055
Businessman. His recollections concerning the Kaiser Permanente-Prudential Insurance company joint venture in health care.
Date of Interview: 24/05/1995
KEE, Sarah J. (b. 1908)
KEE, Sarah J. (b. 1908)
Interview ID: OH 0878
Library administrator. Her experiences as a student in the library school at the College of Industrial Arts, Denton, Texas, and her subsequent career in library administration. Early teaching career, De Leon (Jones County), Texas; library school at College of industrial Arts, 1935-38; librarian at Sabine (Texas) High School, 1935-40; librarian at South Park High School, Beaumont, Texas, 1941; Army Library Service during World War II; Missouri State Library; Wisconsin Free library Commission; activities with American Library Association; U.S. Office of Education, Dallas, Texas.
Date of Interview: 29/02/1992
KEFFER, J. Lindsay (b. 1934)
KEFFER, J. Lindsay (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 1137
Staff member, University of North Texas. His experiences as a student at North Texas State College during the desegregation of the school, 1957-60. Comments about President J C Matthews; observations about racial matters on the college campus and the community of Denton, Texas.
Date of Interview: 12/10/1996
KEITH, Lawrence J. (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
KEITH, Lawrence J. (b. 1920)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0729
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Marine guard detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/11/1987
KELLEY, Ben (b. 1916)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
KELLEY, Ben (b. 1916)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0565
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; hell ship to Japan; Ohasi, Honshu, 1943; liberation.
Date of Interview: 26/03/1982
KELLEY, Craig (b. 1952)
KELLEY, Craig (b. 1952)
Interview ID: OH 1538
Locomotive engineer, commodities trader. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His upper middle-class upbringing in Lubbock, Texas; his activities as a teenager; clothing fashions of the Sixties; general discussion of the music of the Sixties; comments about the Beatles; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; skinny-dipping activities in Lake Dallas; activities of the Hog Farm at the festival; “bad trip” tents; comments about the “free stage” at the festival; performance of the Grand Funk Railroad; comments about the performances of Janis Joplin and Sam and Dave; comments about vocalist Minnie Ripperton and the Rotary Connection; lasting effects of the festival on his life.
Date of Interview: 15/02/2004
KELLEY, Ernest L., Jr. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. A Troop. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.
KELLEY, Ernest L., Jr. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. A Troop. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1483
His life as a youth in northeast Texas; family experiences during the Great Depression; his long-time love of mules and horses; his decision to join the 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard, November, 1940; mobilization of the Texas National Guard, November 18, 1940; training with horses, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, 1940-41; advanced training at Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas, 1941; return to Fort Worth for additional mounted training, 1941; Louisiana Maneuvers, July-September, 1941; voyage from San Francisco to New Caledonia, 1942-43; assignment to Townsville, Australia, 1943; assault on Woodlark Island, July, 1943; dismounting of the cavalry and its conversion to regular infantry; the landing at Arawe, New Britain, December, 1943; combat around Arawe; comments about the fighting qualities of Japanese soldiers; his role as a machine-gunner; rest and relaxation in Australia, July, 1944; combat near the Driniumor River, Aitape, June, 1944; invasion of Leyte, Philippines, November, 1944; combat around the Ormoc Valley; hospitalization due to malaria; landings at Lingayen Gulf, January 27, 1945; his battle wound from a Japanese machine gun burst; rotation back to the States, August, 1945, and subsequent discharge.
Date of Interview: 20/02/2003 to 21/02/2003
KELLEY, Jack W. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KELLEY, Jack W. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0418
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 19/04/1978
KEMP, Albert E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KEMP, Albert E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1110
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 11/12/1995
KEMPFF, Paul (b. 1914)
Royal Dutch Navy WWII Veteran.
KEMPFF, Paul (b. 1914)
Royal Dutch Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0535
Veteran of the Royal Dutch Navy in the Netherlands East Indies. 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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai and Bampong, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 13/10/1980
KENNEDY, Albert E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KENNEDY, Albert E. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: Oh 0699
Businessman, 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; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 15/04/1987
KENNEDY, Hazel (b. 1899) and Annie Mae (b. 1901)
KENNEDY, Hazel (b. 1899) and Annie Mae (b. 1901)
Interview ID: OH 0990
Their recollections about Texarkana, Texas, 1927-41; their careers; church activities; social organizations; their education; entertainment; local business enterprises; women in business; ethnic groups.
Date of Interview: 26/11/1993
KENNER, Jack W. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
KENNER, Jack W. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0513
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; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Hakodate, Sapporo, and Muroran, Hokkaido, 1942-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 04/04/1980
KENNERLY, Sarah Law (b. 1910)
KENNERLY, Sarah Law (b. 1910)
Interview ID: OH 0856
Librarian. Her experiences concerning the development of the Library Services Department at North Texas State College and North Texas State University, 1950-75.
Date of Interview: 01/02/1992
KENT, James (b. 1918)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
KENT, James (b. 1918)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0127
School custodian, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Japanese bombing of Cavite Navy Base; fall of Corregidor and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; copper mines at Mitzushima, Honshu, 1944, and American air raids; liberation.
Date of Interview: 11/05/1972
KERESEY, Richard E. (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol-Torpedo Boat Squadron 5.
KERESEY, Richard E. (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol-Torpedo Boat Squadron 5.Interview ID: OH 1302
Attorney. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background; entry into the Navy, 1941; Northwestern Midshipman School, 1941; Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island, 1942; operations around the Solomon Islands, 1943; New Georgia Campaign, 1943; accounts of individual exploits of his boat, PT-105; action with Marine paratroopers on Choiseul Island, 1943; his association with future President John F. Kennedy; coordination between PT boats and destroyers; his association with Arleigh Burke, skipper of DesRon 23; return to Melville, 1944.
Date of Interview: 22/02/1997
KERNS, James T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KERNS, James T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0316
His experiences while aboard a motor launch in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1976
KERR, Baine P. (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions.
KERR, Baine P. (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions.Interview ID: OH 0947
Attorney. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Guadalcanal, 1942-43; machine gun wound at Guadalcanal; Tarawa, 1943; Kwajalein, 1943; Saipan and Tinian, 1944; assignment to legal office at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of Interview: 04/05/1993
KHADIVAR, Kamran (b. 1960)
KHADIVAR, Kamran (b. 1960)
Interview ID: OH 1855
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas; Civil/structural engineer and businessman. Childhood in Shiraz, Iran; coming to America at fourteen by himself; living with extended family in Texas; adjusting to America and learning English; parents’ escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution; education in American; work experience; continuing Iranian traditions in own family; opportunities provided in America.
Date of Interview: 09/12/2012
KHALEGHIPOUR, Hamid (b. 1956)
KHALEGHIPOUR, Hamid (b. 1956)
Interview ID: OH 1684
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to suburban Allen, Texas. Family history; memories of Iran; decision to immigrate to the U.S. in 1978; first impressions of the U.S.; opinions about the Iranian Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini; education at the University of Oklahoma; career in information technology; decision to settle in Allen; difficulty of keeping up with far-flung family members; feelings about U.S. relations with Iran.
Date of Interview: 14/10/2009
KHAMMASH, Susan (b. 1951)
KHAMMASH, Susan (b. 1951)
Interview ID: OH 1480
Her recollections while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, August 30-September 1, 1969, in Lewisville, Texas. Her early interest in popular music, particularly The Beatles; her rejection of middle-class cultural values; influence of the Vietnam War on young people; her decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; her involvement with the Back-To-Earth movement; cowboys, bikers, and townfolk; security; alcohol and drug use; activities of the Hog Farm; medical and camping facilities; “Wavy Gravy” (Hugh Romney); Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Ten Years After, Chicago, and Janis Joplin; her thoughts about environmentalism; the women’s movement; the role of music as a reflection of the hippie movement of the Sixties.
Date of Interview: 02/03/2003
KIBLER, Morris (b. 1921) and Lillian (b. 1924)
KIBLER, Morris (b. 1921) and Lillian (b. 1924)
Interview ID: OHB 0022
Founders, owner, and operators of Kibler Office Supplies, Denton, Texas.
KIBLER, Morris. Family background; early work experience, education; work as youth in Texas Legislature; Air Force, college teaching careers; office machine salesman; purchase of own business; growth and expansion; comments on self-employment.
KIBLER, Lillian. Family background; early work experience, education; marriage, family; her involvement in management of the family business.
Date of Interview: 09/11/1978
KIBOKO, Tanya (b. *)
KIBOKO, Tanya (b. *)
Interview ID: OH 1803
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Congolese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood in Congo; differences in the school system; travelling around Africa; Congolese culture; moving to the DFW area; differences in food; attending historically black Wiley College; black community in Marshall, Texas; differences between African and African American culture.
Date of Interview: 21/10/2011
KIEHNE, Rudy (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KIEHNE, Rudy (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1355
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 03/03/1999
KILBORN, Allen S. (b. 1914)
U.S. Army Veteran.
KILBORN, Allen S. (b. 1914)
U.S. Army Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0834
His experiences as an Army officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Iowa; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2726-V near Winterset, Iowa; reassignment to Company 783 in Leon, Iowa; reassignment to Company 1742 in Tarkio, Missouri; company move to Gallatin, Missouri; transfer to Company 3773-V in Harrisonville, Missouri; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 11/03/1991
KILDAY, Paul (b. 1900)
U.S. Congressman.
KILDAY, Paul (b. 1900)
U.S. Congressman.Interview ID: OH 0004
Attorney, judge, former U.S. Congressman from San Antonio, 1939-49. Neutrality legislation; selective service legislation; Lend-Lease; conscientious objectors; atomic bomb; demobilization; Marshall Plan; Truman Doctrine; creation of Atomic Energy Commission; Unification Act of the Armed Services; creation of Department of Defense; campaign for Congress against Maury Maverick, 1938.
Date of Interview: 28/08/1965
KILLGO, Carlton J. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
KILLGO, Carlton J. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0109
His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Shooting down of bomber by German fighter. Planes over Magdeburg, 1944; capture by civilians; imprisonment and interrogation near Frankfurt; Stalag Luft 4; Grostichow, East Prussia, 1944; Stalag Luft 1, Barth, 1945; liberation by Russian troops.
Date of Interview: 23/03/1972
KILMER, Robert B. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran. 547th Bomb Squadron. 389th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
KILMER, Robert B. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran. 547th Bomb Squadron. 389th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1433
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences with the French Resistance and as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. His educational background; his reaction to the Pearl Harbor attack; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, April, 1942; basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Sikeston, Missouri, 1942; basic flight training, Majors Field, Greenville, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Pampa, Texas, 1942-43; B-17 transition training, Windover, Utah, 1943; stationing at Grafton Underwood, England, 1943; his description of preparations for a bombing mission; post-mission debriefings; description of missions and his getting shot down, October 14, 1943; rescue by the French Resistance and his six-month experience operating with them; capture by the Gestapo and incarceration at Fresnes Prison, Paris; solitary confinement and interrogation at Wiesbaden, Germany; transfer to Dulag Luft, Frankfurt, Germany, for further interrogation by the Luftwaffe, 1943; transfer to Stalag Luft-III, Sagan, Germany, 1943; physical description of Stalag Luft-Iii and his compound; daily life in the POW camp; value of Red Cross parcels; evacuation and forced march to Nürnberg, Germany, January, 1945; forced march to Moosburg, Germany, 1945; liberation and reunion with his brother at Moosburg; processing at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France, and return to the States by troopship.
Date of Interview: 22/03/2001
KIMBER, Robert “Bob” (b. 1934) and Rita (b. 1934)
KIMBER, Robert “Bob” (b. 1934) and Rita (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 1874
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteaders and simple life advocates. Childhoods; early experiences with gardening and the outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life.
Date of Interview: 08/08/2015
KIMBLE, Betty J. (b. 1931)
KIMBLE, Betty J. (b. 1931)
Interview ID: OH 0709
Homemaker, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early educational experiences in East Texas; Tennyson Miller and Abner Haynes, their impact on the desegregation of North Texas State College; her personal experiences as a student at North Texas State College; student stand-ins at the Campus Theatre; desegregation of local restaurants; comments about the Denton white power structure; job opportunities project; group’s early meetings and social activities; desegregation of Denton public schools; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; voter registration.
Date of Interview: 08/12/1987
Interview ID: OH 1903
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; family background; educational and professional background; Denton’s American Legion Senior Center; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; Denton desegregation; experiences with discrimination and segregation; continued discrimination after integration; contemporary prejudice; lifelong friendships of Fellowship members; continued community involvement; contemporary action in the community.
Date of Interview: 03/03/2017
Interview ID: OH 1822
For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Long-time Denton resident. Childhood in Denton; involvement in various activities, including the Senior Center and church; history of Quakertown; Denton during segregation; the Denton Square; fading communal memory of Quakertown; changes in Denton since integration; changes in the Southeast Denton community.
Date of Interview: 25/04/2013
KINDL, Clarence W. (b. 1916)
U.S.Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
KINDL, Clarence W. (b. 1916)
U.S.Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0641
His experiences at Wheeler Field with the 46th Fighter Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 04/05/1984
KING, Elinor W. (b. 1923)
KING, Elinor W. (b. 1923)
Interview ID: OH 0867
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School in Denton, Texas, 1928-40. Family background; segregated education; comments about classmates and teachers; school activities; sports; discipline; courses and classes; summer jobs; comments about desegregation and closing of Fred Moore School.
Date of Interview: 09/01/1992
KING, Frank H. (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
KING, Frank H. (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0468
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, 1944-45; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 12/12/1972
KING, Harve D. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Company B. 350th Engineer Regiment.
KING, Harve D. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Company B. 350th Engineer Regiment.Interview ID: OH 0937
Educator, university administrator. His experiences as a student at Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, during the 1920s and 1930s. Youth in East Texas; segregation in Denton; comments about Professor Fred Moore; school facilities; athletics; comments about his teachers; influence of coach Tennyson Miller; “Three M’s” singing group; his career in education and his philosophy as an educator.
Date of Interview: 10/02/1992
Interview ID: OH 1411
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in segregated East Texas; his move to Denton, Texas, in 1933 and his education at Frederick Douglass school; enrollment at Texas College, 1939, on a football scholarship; induction into the Army, July, 1942; basic training at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1942; life in the segregated Army; relations between white officers and black troops; construction training at Camp Shelby, 1942-43; assignment to Hollandia, New Guinea, January, 1943; race relations overseas; camp construction; hospital construction; promotion opportunities; recreational activities; transfer to Guadalcanal, 1945; leave time in Australia; return to the States and his postwar career in education.
Date of Interview: 22/05/2001
KING, Leon A. (b. 1938)
KING, Leon A. (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 0570
Public school administrator. His experiences as one of the two African Americans who first integrated athletics at North Texas State College, 1956; comments about Abner Haynes.
Date of Interview: 20/09/1982
KING, Mike (b. 1953)
KING, Mike (b. 1953)
Interview ID: OH 1515
Musician. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His adoption of the hippie counterculture while in high school in Corsicana, Texas; his description about various aspects of the Pop Festival; drug use at the Pop Festival; his description of the bands performing at the Pop Festival and their influences on his musical career.
Date of Interview: 06/10/2003
KING, William (b. 1930)
KING, William (b. 1930)
Interview ID: OH 1917
Memories of growing up in Denton. His lifelong involvement with the Rotary club from watching his dad as president to his own experiences as the president of the Rotary club in Bonham. Recollections of Denton historical events such as the desegregation of public schools.
Date of Interview: 26/04/2018
KINGSLEY, Clarence (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Troop E. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.
KINGSLEY, Clarence (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Troop E. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1536
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to join the Texas National Guard, 1936; the federalization of the National Guard, November 18, 1940; training at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, 1940-41; additional training at Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas, 1941; Louisiana Maneuvers, summer, 1941; breaking in cavalry horses; assignment to New Caledonia, 1942-43; decision to discontinue the use of horses because of the jungle terrain and conversion to a regimental combat team; his training in a machine gun platoon; the landing on Woodlark Island, July, 1943; amphibious landing and combat on Arawe, New Britain, December 15, 1943; nighttime combat on New Britain; problems with Japanese snipers; landings on New Guinea and the Driniumor River Battle, June-July, 1944; his description of jungle combat conditions; invasion of the Philippines, November, 1944; combat on Leyte; advancing through the Ormoc Valley.
Date of Interview: 21/11/2003
KIRCHHOFER, Robert J. (b. 1911)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.
KIRCHHOFER, Robert J. (b. 1911)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.Interview ID: OH 0670
Executive. Educational background; early career with Texaco in Jamaica; transfer to Caltex; marketing assistant, India, 1937; marketing Caltex products in India; lifestyles for Caltex employees in India; World War II and Indian market; assignment to Petroleum Ordnance Committee, 1941-43; return to India as Bombay district manager, 1943; partition into India and Pakistan, effect on Caltex; Vizagapatam refinery; transfer to the Netherlands, 1953; relationships between Caltex and shareholders (Texaco and Standard Oil of California); Caltex marketing in Europe; assignment to Caltex (New York) as assistant general manager, North Europe, 1961; appointment as regional director, South European Area; reentry of Socal and Texaco into European market, 1967; appointment as director of Mediterranean and Mid-East Region, 1964-76; OPEC and its effects on Caltex.
Date of Interview: 17/01/1986
KIRK, John (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KIRK, John (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0747
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 23/04/1988
KIRKLAND, Zach (b. 1938)
KIRKLAND, Zach (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 1604
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer and manager. Childhood in San Antonio and Orange, Texas; education at Lamar State College of Technology; decision to join NASA; work on engine development program, Apollo propulsion systems and duties in mission control; duties in Skylab and Space Shuttle programs; turf battles among Johnson Space Center and other NASA centers and contractors.
Date of Interview: 20/10/2006
KIRKPATRICK, Herbert II (b. *)
KIRKPATRICK, Herbert II (b. *)
Interview ID: OH 1585
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Memories of childhood in Stop Six neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas; experience of attending all-black public schools throughout most of 1960s; perception that African Americans “lost out” in desegregation of schools in Fort Worth; importance of education as a family value; decision to attend North Texas in 1970 and efforts to find activities that interested him; involvement in North Texas gymnastics team; social interactions with African-American and white students; graduation from North Texas with degree in psychology and minor in rehabilitation psychology; career as public school teacher and guidance counselor.
Date of Interview: 14/03/2006
KITCHENS, Mildred (b. 1920) (4189)
KITCHENS, Mildred (b. 1920) (4189)
Interview ID: OH 1999
Mildred Kitchens recounts her childhood growing up in the small timber mill town of Diboll, Texas during the early twentieth century. She discusses working her way through the Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women’s University) in the late 1930s. After graduating from TSCW, Kitchens took a job working for the National Youth Administration (NYA). After that, she spent a lifetime working in several different industries. She describes these working experiences in detail, chronicling her time working as an administrative assistant in the military, and a social worker in East Texas. Her interview sheds new light on several different historical topics, including small Texas towns in the pre-World War II era, the Great Depression, higher education and employment opportunities for women during and after World War II, the changing nature of social work and the rise of women’s health clinics in the post-Roe v. Wade era.
Date of Interview: 27/11/2019
KITTERMAN, Ivan L. (b. 1922)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
KITTERMAN, Ivan L. (b. 1922)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0776
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/09/1988
KITTS, William Wayne (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KITTS, William Wayne (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1723
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare veteran of World War II. Childhood and family history in Sulphur Springs, Texas, college at the University of Texas during the Depression, and musical background. Enlistment in the U.S. Navy shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor, midshipman school in New York City and selection for sonar school in Key West, Florida. Assignment to USS Mason, the first ship in the navy with an integrated crew. Post-war duty as commanding officer of USS Hollis and USS Tollberg. Role in establishing Naval Reserve Training Center in Lubbock, Texas. Reactivation to active duty during Korean War. Post-military career at Vought Aeronautics.
Date of Interview: 13/05/2009
KLAVENESS, ALF (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KLAVENESS, ALF (b. 1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1472
Petroleum engineer, geophysicist. His career in the oil exploration business; his service aboard the destroyer USS Benham in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His family’s shipbuilding business in Norway; his parents’ emigration to the United States; his experiences working aboard tankers; college at Louisiana State University, 1934-38; his positions as “jug hustler,” dynamite loader, driller, party manager, and party chief of a seismic engineering crew for Texaco; his duties aboard the Benham as executive officer; application of seismic engineering to sonar operations; his observations concerning the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945; postwar re-employment with Texaco as a geophysicist; his retirement from Texaco and work as a consultant interpreting speculative seismic data; his advocacy of the use of retired warships for peacetime activities; his association with boatbuilder Andrew Higgins; application of sonics to the medical field, offshore oil drilling, underwater archaeology, and anti-submarine warfare; his patents for imaging and mapping the underground; the influence of Dr. Alexander Wolfe on his career.
Date of Interview: 06/11/2000 to 13/11/2000
KLEIMAN, Karen (b. 1954)
KLEIMAN, Karen (b. 1954)
Interview ID: OH 2035
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Karen Kleiman is a clinical social worker and maternal mental health therapist. She founded the Postpartum Stress Center in Pennsylvania in 1988. Kleiman has written and co-written several books on motherhood, postpartum health, and therapy. These include: This Isn’t What I Expected (1994), The Postpartum Husband (2000), What Was I Thinking? (2005), and Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts (2011). In the interview she discusses founding her center, appealing to physicians, and navigating the pathologizing of postpartum stress.
Date of Interview: 30/03/2021
KLEIN, Frank (b. 1938)
KLEIN, Frank (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 0655
Business executive. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 20/12/1984
KLINE, Frederick H. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
KLINE, Frederick H. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1218
His experiences as a photographic laboratory technician in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Technical training at Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado, 1942; Air Force Photo-Intelligence School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1943; voluntary duty with the Flying Tigers, Kunming, China, 1943; flying "The Hump"; assignment to 14th Air Force Headquarters for photo-interpretation work; comments about General Claire Chennault; assignment as photo-intelligence officer for the 341st Medium Bomb Group, Yankai, China, 1944; aerial interdiction of Japanese railroad traffic in Indo-China; development of "glip"-bombing techniques to destroy railroad bridges; participation in bombing missions in a B-25; V-J Day and mustering out of the service.
Date of Interview: 10/02/1998
KLINGENBERG, Elmo (b. 1917)
Fort Worth Stockyards Company.
KLINGENBERG, Elmo (b. 1917)
Fort Worth Stockyards Company.Interview ID: OHB 0074
President and general manager, Fort Worth Stockyards Company, Fort Worth, Texas. Family background; dairy farming in Washington County, Illinois; experiences teaching in one-room school, Washington County, 1935; military service during World War II; employment with United Stockyards Corporation and placement as management trainee at Fort Worth Stockyards, 1946; promotion to yardmaster, 1953; brief description of stockyards activities, early 1900s; geographical area served and volume of business; description of cattle transportation by rail and truck; comments on meat packing operations in stockyards; description of Fort Worth Livestock Exchange; explanation of “private treaty” arrangement between buyers and sellers; description of livestock auctioning process; comments on stockyards company’s sources of income; explanation of waste disposal; comments on duties of personnel; volume of livestock sold at auction; description of weighing and feeding operations; comments on price controls during World War II; remodeling of stockyards facility, 1960s and 1970s; comments on Niles City and its incorporation into Fort Worth; appointment as president and general manager, 1971; company name changes; description of union activities at stockyards; trends in livestock operations in Texas; civic activities; comments on government regulations.
Date of Interview: 12/10/1982
KLOEPPEL, Lawrence S. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KLOEPPEL, Lawrence S. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0770
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/09/1988
KNIFFIN, Willard (b. 1896)
KNIFFIN, Willard (b. 1896)
Interview ID: OH 0215
Financial advisor. His reminiscences about the family of former New Mexico Senator Bronson Cutting, including his parents, sister, aunts, and uncles.
Date of Interview: 20/03/1974
KNIGHT, Douglas F. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
KNIGHT, Douglas F. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0413
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; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1942-44; liberation.
Date of Interview: 12/03/1978
KOGER, James (b. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
KOGER, James (b. 1926)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1590
Remembrances of childhood in Des Moines, Iowa, Peoria, Illinois, San Antonio, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; decision to enroll at University of Oklahoma; being drafted in 1945; training in Army Corps of Engineers; service in postwar occupation of Japan; decision to return to University of Oklahoma; career as aviation engineer with General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date of Interview: 14/07/2006
KOLBERT, Byron (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
KOLBERT, Byron (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0411
His experiences at Bellows Field with the 86th Observation Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1978
KOOKER, Jean (b. 1924)
KOOKER, Jean (b. 1924)
Interview ID: OH 0711
Teacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early organization and social activities; integration of public schools; desegregation of public eating places; establishment of Denton Christian Preschool; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; voter registration; meeting programs; evolving nature of membership; desegregation of housing; intangible accomplishments of the group.
Date of Interview: 02/02/1988
KOPERNIAK, Sigismund (b. ca. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Spence.
KOPERNIAK, Sigismund (b. ca. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. USS Spence.Interview ID: OH 1478
A personal diary detailing his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Spence during World War II. Launching of the Spence and sea trials off Portland, Maine, January, 1943; shakedown cruise to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, February, 1943; escort duty in the Atlantic and Caribbean, March, 1943; convoy duty in the Casablanca, French Morocco, area, April-May, 1943; passage through the Panama Canal, June, 1943; escort duty for the carriers Princeton and Belleau Wood en route to Baker Island, September, 1943; attachment to Destroyer Division 23 in the Solomon Islands, September, 1943; patrols off Kolombangara and Vella Lavella Islands; interdiction of Japanese shipping and the Spence’s role in sinking of twenty barges off of Vella Lavella; bombardment of Buka-Bonis airfields, November 1, 1943; Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, November 2, 1943; support for landings on Bougainville, November 3, 1943; capture of a Japanese sailor; continued attacks by Japanese aircraft; gun battles with Japanese cruisers and destroyers in the Buka-Rabaul route, November 24, 1943; shore bombardments of Tiaraka, Bougainville, Kavieng, and New Ireland, January-February, 1944; shore bombardment of Emirau, Aitape, Humboldt Bay, and Caroline Islands, March 1-24, 1944; shore bombardment during the invasions of the Marianas Islands, June 19-27, 1944; return to the States for overhaul, August, 1944; extensive details about liberties, daily shipboard routines, general quarters drills, combat stress, watches, and rest and recreation.
Date of Interview: 01/01/1968
KORAN, Stephen (b. 1913) and Flora Belle (b. 1912)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
KORAN, Stephen (b. 1913) and Flora Belle (b. 1912)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0236
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences at Wheeler Field (he as a member of the 86th Observation Squadron) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/08/1974
KORBA, John (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KORBA, John (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0644
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 03/05/1984
KOTRLA, Hubert E. (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KOTRLA, Hubert E. (b. 1912)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0321
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Bagley during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1976
KOURETAS, Nick (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KOURETAS, Nick (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0327
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Raleigh during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/06/1976
KOURY, George (b. 1922)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
KOURY, George (b. 1922)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0125
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Nichols Field, 1943-44; hell ship to Formosa, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Prison Camp No. 7, northern Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 27/04/1972
KRANZ, Eugene (b. 1933)
KRANZ, Eugene (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 1614
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA Mission Control flight director. Early childhood and education in Toledo, Ohio; Air Force career; career with NASA, including flight control missions in Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, International Space Station and Space Shuttle programs, with particular attention to Skylab’s challenges; NASA’s institutional history and culture.
Date of Interview: 11/10/2006
KRIER, Jennifer Leia (b. 1977)
U.S. Air Force OIF/OEF Veteran.
KRIER, Jennifer Leia (b. 1977)
U.S. Air Force OIF/OEF Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1789
For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Air Force Major, Logistics Planning Officer (21R), Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Veteran. Childhood in Nebraska; reasons for joining the Air Force; experiences in the University of Nebraska ROTC program and tech school; memories of September 11th attacks while in tech school; tour in Yokota, Japan; tour at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina; deployment to Kuwait; deployment to Afghanistan; experiences mentoring the Afghan National Police; observations of women in the Afghan National Police; thoughts on women in combat; transition into the Reserves; post-active duty life and future plans; reflections on military service; advice for future generations of women in the military.
Date of Interview: 21/03/2013
KROHN, Sidney F. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KROHN, Sidney F. (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0339
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/06/1976
KRUCKMAN, Laurence (b. 1943)
KRUCKMAN, Laurence (b. 1943)
Interview ID: OH 2068
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Laurence (Larry) Kruckman discusses his work as an anthropologist and as an postpartum depression/perinatal mental health advocate. He discusses early support group work he began in Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1970s, including the Latina group Dara Luz, and his time working with Postpartum Support International (PSI) including creating their original website in the 1990s. He discusses his research on cross-cultural postpartum and his discussion of postpartum depression as a “culture-bound syndrome.” He discusses other postpartum advocates, including Sonia Murdock, Nancy Berchtold, James Hamilton, Jane Honikman, and their advocacy around the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Date of Interview: 10/01/2023
KRUSE, Ed F. (b. 1928)
Blue Bell Creameries.
KRUSE, Ed F. (b. 1928)
Blue Bell Creameries.Interview ID: OHB 0059
Chairman of board, president, general manager, and treasurer, Blue Bell Creameries, Brenham, Texas. Family background; history of Brenham Creamery Company; work in creamery as boy; description of cream churning process; closing of butter manufacturing operation, 1958; work as route supervisor for Swift Ice Cream Company, 1949, and Blue Bell Creameries, 1951; employment as manager of Blue Bell, 1951; origin of Blue Bell label; highlights of managerial years; branch openings in Austin and Houston; personnel recruitment and selection; entry into ice cream jobbing business, 1967; branch openings in Beaumont and Mesquite; advertising approaches; comments on company’s sales and market share; comments on financing operation and organizational structure; views on government regulations; views on his role in future of company; effects of oil boom near Brenham; comments on ingredients used in products; civic and trade association activities; views on development of successful business.
Date of Interview: 18/08/1981
KSIAZKIEWICZ, Marzena (b. ca. 1971)
KSIAZKIEWICZ, Marzena (b. ca. 1971)
Interview ID: OH 1801
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Polish-born immigrant to Lewisville, Texas. Her family; moving to the United States; childhood in Poland; communism and martial law in Poland; post-communist Poland; impressions of America; cleaning service in New Jersey; move to Texas; post-9/11 changes in America; personal relationship with Pope John Paul II.
Date of Interview: 06/12/2012
KUHN, John (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KUHN, John (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0346
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with Patrol Wing Two during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/10/1976
KUMAR, Divya (b. 1977)
KUMAR, Divya (b. 1977)
Interview ID: OH 2069
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Divya Kumar discusses her work as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with a specialization in perinatal mental health. She discusses meeting fellow therapists Desiree Israel and Jabina Coleman in 2016, and working with them to found the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color in 2017. The Alliance then merged with Postpartum Support International (PSI). Kumar describes PSI’s difficulties addressing racism and reaching people of color, and how the work of the Alliance (with the assistance of Wendy N. Davis of PSI) is working to address some of these issues.
Date of Interview: 07/10/2022
KUPERSZTOCH, Jacobo (b. 1944)
KUPERSZTOCH, Jacobo (b. 1944)
Interview ID: OH 2021
Mexican-born immigrant to the U.S. of German heritage and immigrant rights activist. Childhood and education in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico; involvement in activist student politics; career as a biologist working on issues of bacterial resistance; involvement in immigrant rights movements and local Mexican American political groups; opinions about Mexican attitudes toward immigrants; involvement in the April 2006 Dallas “Megamarch.” Interview in Spanish and English translations.
Date of Interview: 12/10/2007
KURMADAS, Leo (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KURMADAS, Leo (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0435
His experiences while aboard the auxiliary repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/07/1978
KUZMA, John (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
KUZMA, John (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0256
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the fire station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/12/1974
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