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MacIVER, Murdo (b. 1901)Caltex Petroleum Corporation

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OH 0668
Executive. Educational background; early employment; employment with Standard Oil Company of California; transfer to Caltex, 1938; expansion before World War II; Caltex during World War II; Bapco’s refinery expansion; financing postwar refinery expansion; foreign exchange problems; banking syndicates; accounting methods; tanker construction;…
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OH 1884
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Telephone operator and EEOC member and activist. Childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans’ experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the…
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OH 1648
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Redford, Texas. Childhood and early education in Redford; attendance at University of Texas-Austin; family’s farming and mercantile history in the Big Bend area; involvement with Texas Historical Commission; experiences of mother, Lucia Rede Madrid, as a rural librarian;…
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OH 1877
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Family’s decision to leave Mexico; immigration to Dallas, Texas, at seven years old; life as undocumented; discovering the North Texas DREAM Team; DACA; activism; current immigration policy.
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MAGEE, Kenneth (b. 1914) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0340
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1009
Sisters’ recollections of life in Texarkana, Texas, and parents; Junior Service League; family entertainment; women’s suffrage and political activities; church activities; Current Topic Club; Wednesday Music Club; women’s household chores.
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MAGLAUGHLIN, Roy E. (b. 1926) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1189
Farmer. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Pilotfish in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; assignment to the Pilotfish, 1945; his responsibilities as a torpedoman striker; patrol off Marcus Island; also his observations concerning the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2…
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OH 0518
Musician. His recollections about the personal life and professional career of Colonel Earl D. Irons. His student days at North Texas Agricultural College under Irons; Irons’s role in the development of the high school band movement in Texas; Irons’s teaching philosophy; Irons’s relationship with the Texas Music Educators Association; Irons’s…
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MAILER, Norman K. (b. 1923) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

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OH 1560
Novelist. His various reminiscences based on his experiences in the Philippines during World War II. Comments about Army life in general; jungle patrols; observations on the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945; the role of his wartime experiences in his novel, The Naked and the Dead.
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OH 1796
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. President and CEO at AIDS Service of Dallas, lawyer, and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Michigan; move to Chicago, Illinois, and then to the Dallas, Texas area for college; work for Dallas County Juvenile Department; law school in San Antonio, Texas; coming out; involvement…
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OH 2056

Major, Brenda: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Brenda Major discusses her training and work in psychology, including her research into women and achievement. Then the majority of the interview is on her work studying women’s psychological causal attributions around abortion, research conducted in…

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OH 2093

For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Assistant Professor of History, World War II scholar at UNT. Childhood in Belgrade, Serbia and Toronto, Canada. Education at York and Toronto Universities. Childhood immigration to Canada, life and work in Canada and Moscow. Immigration to the United States. Multicultural childhood and…

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OH 1750
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas; North Texas DREAM Team Lobbyist. Childhood in Mexico; development of leadership skills as a child; effects of NAFTA on the Mexican economy and standards of living; thoughts on NAFTA’s role in driving illegal immigration; immigration to McKinney, Texas…
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MALDONADO, Anthony (b. 1984) U.S. Army OIF Veteran

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OH 1675
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Fort Worth; decision to drop out of high school; decision to enlist in U.S. Army; experiences in basic training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma; deployment to Kuwait and Iraq; experience of being reunited with sister at Balad Air Base outside of Baghdad; duties guarding and…
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MANGANELLO, Arthur (b. 1917) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0585
His experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MANGREM, Clarence (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0372
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 35th Infantry during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 2124

Publicist in the American publishing industry. Experiences as a gay man in America; growing up in conservative Northeastern community with primarily Republican surroundings; gradual exploration of sexuality and coming-out narrative. Descriptions of 1980’s club scene and the AIDS epidemic. 

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MANNION, Joseph (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0671
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1621
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Resident of Presidio, Texas. Experiences of childhood in Presidio, including weekly visits across border to Ojinaga, Mexico; education at Sul Ross State University; career with State Parks Division of Texas State Parks and Wildlife agency; service on school board of Presidio ISD; opinions…
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MARBY, Dorinda (b. 1947)Braniff International Airways

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OH 1961

Marby, Dorinda: Various roles: line maintenance, scheduling flight attendants and pilots, to Flight Attendant. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and…

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OH 1356
Educator. His experiences as a young teenager on the home front in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during World War II. His family’s economic situation during the Great Depression; teenage recreational activities before World War II; the town’s reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; the establishment of an armed guard at the entrances to the…
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OH 1797
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Licensed counselor and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Big Spring, Texas; college in the Dallas area; work with Oak Lawn Counseling Center; AIDS crisis; involvement in the Human Rights Campaign; work as a columnist with the Dallas Voice; the Dallas Gay Alliance (DGA); coming…
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MARTIN, Clark (b. 1915) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0595
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MARTIN, Hugh (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1084
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MARTIN, Jack J. (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0725
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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