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KING, Harve D. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Company B, 350th Engineer Regiment

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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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KINGSLEY, Clarence (b. 1921) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Troop E, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

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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…
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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…
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KIRK, John (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0747
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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KITTS, William Wayne (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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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…
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KLAVENESS, ALF (b. 1916) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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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…
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OH 2035

Kleiman, Karen: 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…

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OH 0655
Business executive. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
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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…
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KLINGENBERG, Elmo (b. 1917)Fort Worth Stockyards Company

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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…
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KLOEPPEL, Lawrence S. (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0770
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 0215
Financial advisor. His reminiscences about the family of former New Mexico Senator Bronson Cutting, including his parents, sister, aunts, and uncles.
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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.
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KOGER, James (b. 1926) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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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…
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KOLBERT, Byron (b. 1922) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0411
His experiences at Bellows Field with the 86th Observation Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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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…
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KOPERNIAK, Sigismund (b. ca. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, USS Spence

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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,…
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KORAN, Stephen (b. 1913) and Flora Belle (b. 1912) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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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.
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