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MIERS, Wallace (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MIERS, Wallace (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0726
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/11/1987
MILES, Charles H. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
MILES, Charles H. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0581
His experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 23/10/1982
MILLAR, Abram (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 365th Bomb Squadron. 305th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
MILLAR, Abram (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 365th Bomb Squadron. 305th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1321
His experiences as a B-17 gunner/bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; Drake University, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; washing out of the Aviation Cadet Program due to his problems with depth perception; armament school, Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado, 1943; aerial gunnery school, Kingman, Arizona, 1943; gunnery instructors school, Fort Myers, Florida, 1944; assignment to a B-17 crew and phase training, Alexandria, Louisiana, 1944; assignment to the 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston, England, 1944; mission to Merseburg, Germany, 1944; description of combat against German fighters; German flak; a detailed description of his plane being shot down on his eighteenth mission, January 10, 1945; his wounds as a result of being hit by flak; the crash-landing of his plane; recuperation in England; postwar career.
Date of Interview: 11/06/1999
MILLER, A. E. (b. 1916)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
MILLER, A. E. (b. 1916)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0563
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1982
MILLER, A. Tennyson (b. 1913)
MILLER, A. Tennyson (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 0857
Educator. His experiences as a teacher and coach at Frederick Douglass school in Denton, Texas, 1936-43. Comments about Principal Fred Moore; segregated education in Denton; his admission to the doctoral program and breaking the color barrier at North Texas State College, 1954; his teaching philosophy.
Date of Interview: 11/01/1992
MILLER, Chris (b. 1926)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.
MILLER, Chris (b. 1926)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0288
Public relations consultant, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Fort Worth, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; House speakership race; committee appointments; constitutional revision; Equal Rights Amendment; public school financing; public utilities legislation; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 24/06/1975
MILLER, Gerald E. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLER, Gerald E. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0954
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to USS Richmond; Komandorski Island action; Aleutians Campaign; post World War II naval career.
Date of Interview: 03/05/1993
MILLER, Hamilton S. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLER, Hamilton S. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0569
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Farragut during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/05/1982
MILLER, John (b. 1905)
MILLER, John (b. 1905)
Interview ID: OH 0124
Judge (36th Judicial District of Texas). His observations on the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1940-70. Criminal offenses in Aransas County; justices of the peace; appointment of county commissioners; selection of grand jurors; comments about Governors Dan Moody, James Allred, Allan Shivers, and John Connally; South Texas politics in general; Johnson-Stevenson senatorial election of 1948.
Date of Interview: 05/01/1972
MILLER, John M. (b. 1905)
MILLER, John M. (b. 1905)
Interview ID: OH 1462
Pioneer aviator. His reminiscences from his career in aviation, 1920-63. Influence of the early aircraft designer Glenn Curtiss; his meeting with the aviatrix Ruth Law; influence of the book Aerobatics by Horatio Barber; his meeting with barnstorming pilot “Swanee” Taylor; Taylor’s gift of his aircraft to Miller; teaching himself to fly without formal instruction and his solo flight on December 15, 1923; college at Pratt Institute of Technology and graduation with a degree in mechanical engineering, 1927; meetings of aviators at a speakeasy, New York City, 1923-27; origins of the organization “Quiet Birdsmen”; obtaining his aircraft mechanic’s license, 1927; his eye-witness account of Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight , May 20, 1927; influence of Harold Stark’s “1-2-3 System”; employment with Gates Flying Circus, 1927-29; his career as a barnstormer, 1929; his joining the Marine Corps Reserve, 1929; comments about German pilot Ernst Udet; his cross-country flight in a Pitcairn autogiro, May 14-28, 1931; making 3,000 flights as an airmail pilot; employment for twenty-five years as a pilot for Eastern Airlines; employment as a test pilot for Columbia Aircraft Corporation during World War II; test work on the Grumman J2F-6 amphibian; comments about various aircraft he flew for Eastern.
Date of Interview: 10/05/2002
MILLER, Oscar (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLER, Oscar (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0406
His experiences while aboard the oiler USS Rampapo during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/12/1977
MILLMAN, Chester (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MILLMAN, Chester (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0465
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/12/1978
MILLS, Mitzi (b. 1949)
Anzea Textiles. Fort Worth TX.
MILLS, Mitzi (b. 1949)
Anzea Textiles. Fort Worth TX.Interview ID: OH 1994 Mills, Mitzi
Mitzi Mills is the President, co-owner, co-founder and creative director of Anzea Textiles located in Fort Worth, Texas. She and her partner Bruce Doeren founded the company in 1990 as a premier source for commercial, or “non-residential,” upholstery fabrics available for specifiers in the design industry. The Anzea story has been inspired by Mitzi’s longstanding sense of social justice and environmental responsibility and her background as a graphic designer. Since its beginning, Anzea has been unique in the North Texas region because of its business model. As a wholesaler and distributor, Anzea manages an international supply chain, controls pricing, and maintains an international sales force. Anzea also exerts total creative control over product offerings, custom product design, marketing, and branding making it a comprehensive, autonomous enterprise. In the early 2000’s Anzea became one of the select few contract textile houses to develop an exclusive collection of sustainable fabrics with the mill Rohner Textile AG, Switzerland, utilizing Rohner’s Climatex® fiber system. Anzea continues to source advanced fiber technologies and introduce environmentally-conscious products. The company was instrumental in crafting the Facts Sustainability Certification (NSF/ANSI 336-2011 Standard) for commercial textiles, and remains active in policy and regulatory issues that apply to contract textile specification and use. The Anzea Environmental Statement expresses core company values and embraces suppliers that share the company’s mission.
Date of Interview: 07/03/2019
MILTON, Gen. T. R. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran; U.S. Air Force General.
MILTON, Gen. T. R. (b. ca. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran; U.S. Air Force General.Interview ID: OH 1678
Retired U.S. Air Force general and former commander of Thirteenth Air Force. Thoughts on command and leadership; opinions of various commanders; opinions regarding USAF traditions as compared to those of other services, including discussions of uniforms and force cohesiveness; concerns regarding U.S. Air Force Academy, force organization, and command structure; opinions regarding Gen. Curtis LeMay and other Air Force chiefs of staff; combat experience in European Theater of World War II; opinions regarding Air Force execution of various Cold War policies.
Date of Interview: 11/10/2006 to 16/03/2007
MINOR, Fred H. (b. 1890)
Texas House of Representatives.
MINOR, Fred H. (b. 1890)
Texas House of Representatives.Interview ID: OH 0001
Attorney, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. His experiences as a member of the Texas House of Representatives and Speaker of the House, 1931-33. Funding for highway construction; philosophy concerning functions of Speaker of the House
Date of Interview: 10/12/1964
Interview ID: OH 0172
His experiences while serving in the Texas Legislature during the 1930s. Comments about Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, and Miriam and James Ferguson; his term as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Date of Interview: 13/11/1973
MINSHEW, Cecil T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
MINSHEW, Cecil T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0597
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; Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1942; shipbuilding at Nagasaki, 1943-44; Orio, Kyushu, 1944-45; liberation; Nagasaki after dropping the A-bomb.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1983
MITCHELL, G. C. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MITCHELL, G. C. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0181
Realtor. His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/04/1974
MITCHELL, Irene (b. 1927) and George (b. 1925)
MITCHELL, Irene (b. 1927) and George (b. 1925)
Interview ID: OH 0962
Their experiences as residents of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1955-80. Youth in central Texas; education in segregated schools; decision to build home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; school activities; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; development of Mitchell Mail Service; transportation problems; zoning problems; Interorganizational Council; the “Buy Out”; current neighborhood problems.
Date of Interview: 11/12/1990 to 18/12/1990, 15/01/1991
MITCHELL, Joe (b. 1941)
Braniff International Airways.
MITCHELL, Joe (b. 1941)
Braniff International Airways.Interview ID: OH 1963
Various roles: shift work, reservations, freight, customer service agent, assistant manager, manager of gates and ticket counters, in charge of selling Braniff equipment and materials after bankruptcy - took 10 years. 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 family members. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact on the DFW area and the airline industry as a whole with the “End of the Plain Plane” campaign brought in by Harding Lawrence. Discussions on being a part of the Braniff family and Braniff’s rise to the top of preferred airlines to its bankruptcy on May 12, 1982.
Date of Interview: 21/09/2013
MITCHELL, Odie (b. 1924)
MITCHELL, Odie (b. 1924)
Interview ID: OH 0987
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in East Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Flagstaff, Arizona; move to Kingman, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 19/10/1993
MITCHELL, Odus (b. 1899)
MITCHELL, Odus (b. 1899)
Interview ID: OH 0566
Former football coach at North Texas State University. His experiences as head football coach during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 20/07/1982 to 19/10/1982
MOFFETT, George (b. 1896)
Texas State Legislator.
MOFFETT, George (b. 1896)
Texas State Legislator.Interview ID: OH 0021
Farmer, oilman, former state legislator. His personal experiences as a member of the House and Senate of Texas for thirty-four years, 1930-64. Delegate to Democratic National Convention in Houston, 1928; comments about Governors W. Lee O’Daniel, Coke Stevenson, and Allan Shivers; oil legislation.
Date of Interview: 03/05/1965 to 26/07/1965, 12/10/1966
MOHAIR, Billie (b. 1941)
MOHAIR, Billie (b. 1941)
Interview ID: OH 1905
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; civil rights victories; experiences of racism and segregation; Civil Rights Movement; family background; educational and professional background; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; Quakertown; continued community involvement; activism; contemporary civil rights issues and groups; contemporary status of civil rights.
Date of Interview: 07/04/2017
Interview ID: OH 0713
Librarian. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Coping with segregation in Denton; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; desegregation of North Texas State College; her college experiences; tutoring program; decision to join the Fellowship; social activities; demise of the Fellowship.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1988
MOJDEHI, Michael Masoud (b. 1952)
MOJDEHI, Michael Masoud (b. 1952)
Interview ID: OH 1742
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant now living in Plano, Texas. Childhood in Tehran, Iran; soccer career playing for the Iranian National Team and various club teams; reasons for immigrating to Dallas in 1977; reaction to Islamic Revolution; obtaining citizenship through marriage; years spent living in San Jose, California; wife’s death; return to Iran 1992; return to Dallas in 1993; trying out for the Dallas Cowboys; relationship with Iranian community in Plano, Texas; contact with family in Iran and Iranian media; opinions on American government and national anthem; other topics discussed include self-employment, religion, and education.
Date of Interview: 11/04/2011
MOLNER, Edith (b. 1926)
MOLNER, Edith (b. 1926)
Interview ID: OH 0906
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences in Hungary and in various extermination camps during the Holocaust. Pre-World War II anti-Semitism; childhood and education; family religious life; forced labor battalions; confiscation of Jewish property; creation of Szeged Ghetto, 1944; everyday ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, September, 1944; processing at Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau; living conditions; death of parents; survival techniques; transfer to Lenzing, near Mauthausen; factory work; living conditions at Lenzing; liberation by American forces; journey back to Szeged; Zionist Underground; illegal entry into Palestine, 1946; emigration to the United States.
Date of Interview: 11/02/1990 to 18/02/1990
MONEY, Frances Chaney (b. 1939)
MONEY, Frances Chaney (b. 1939)
Interview ID: OH 1619
Alumna of North Texas State University. Experiences growing up with racial segregation in Ennis, Texas; graduation from high school in 1956; initial decision to attend Prairie View A&M and subsequent decision to transfer to North Texas in 1958; experiences on campus at North Texas and rooming in the “Shack Town” neighborhood of Denton; 1961 graduation with degree in vocational home economics; graduate work in elementary education at North Texas; career as educator in Corsicana and Richardson, Texas.
Date of Interview: 20/04/2006
MONROE, Bruce (b. 1956)
MONROE, Bruce (b. 1956)
Interview ID: OH 1920
For the Dallas LGBTQ Oral History Project. Remembering going to school at Texas A&M and experiencing his “sexual awaking”. Introduction to the Gay bar scene and gay community in Dallas. Recounting the AIDS epidemic in Dallas and the Dallas buyers’ club.
Date of Interview: 09/11/2013
MONTGOMERY, Marvin “Smokey” (Marvin Dooley Wetter) (b. 1913)
MONTGOMERY, Marvin “Smokey” (Marvin Dooley Wetter) (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 1152
Musician. His experiences as a member of the “Light Crust Doughboys” western swing band, 1935-1945. Early musical career as a banjo player in a traveling tent show; employment with the “Wanderers”; employment with the “Light Crust Doughboys”; comments about W. Lee (“Pappy”) O'Daniel; work with Gene Autry and Republic Pictures; acquiring the nicknames “Junior” and later “Smokey”; “Doughboy” recording sessions; comments about Bob Wills; comments about individual members of the “Doughboys” band; World War II and its effects on the “Doughboys”; employment making naval shells for Crown Machine and Tool in Fort Worth; road shows with the “Doughboys,” 1931-41; relations between Bob Wills and “Pappy” O'Daniel; moonlighting on the honky-tonk circuit with the “Southern Selectors”; the “Doughboys'“ record sales; “Doughboy” adventures; jamming with African-American musicians; performing with the “Duncan Coffee Grinders” during World War II; his return to the ”Doughboys” after World War II; performances with the ”Texo Hired Hands”; performing with the “Levee Singers” in the Levee Club in Dallas during the 1960s;comments about rockabilly performer Ronnie Dawson; comments about the record business; his career as a music arranger; operation of the Sumet-Bernet Recording Studios in Fort Worth; employment as music director for the “Big D Jamboree,” 1941-60; his song writing career; experiences with “Lefty” Frizzell, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Webb Pierce, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ernest Tubb, Elvis Presley, and the “Rolling Stones”; comments about “Doughboys” emcees Truett Kimsey, ”Pappy” O'Daniel, Eddie Dunn, Larry Rowell, Parker Wilson, Mel Cox, Jimmy Jefferies, Ted Gouldey; comments about “Doughboy” members “Zeke” Campbell, ”Knocky” Parker, “Snub” Dearman, Kenneth Pitts, Clifford Gross, Dick Reinhart, Bert Dodson, Cecil Brower, Leon McAuliffe; his personal funeral arrangements; miscellaneous vignettes.
Date of Interview: 07/09/1996 to 13/03/1997
MOODY, Ben (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. F Troop. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.
MOODY, Ben (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. F Troop. 112th Cavalry. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1559
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; his father’s leather shop in Kilgore, Texas, during the oil boom of the 1930s; influence of German leather carver Solon Aaron on his life; his education; his decision to join the Texas National Guard, November 18, 1940; his work in the repair and maintenance of cavalry equipment; New Caledonia, August, 1942-June, 1943; Woodlark Island landings, 1943; operations at Arawe, New Britain, 1943-44; Battle of the Driniumor River, New Guinea, June-August, 1944; problems with inaccurate maps; his evacuation due to intestinal ulcers, malaria, and dengue fever.
Date of Interview: 08/10/2003
MOODY, Floyd (b. 1939)
MOODY, Floyd (b. 1939)
Interview ID: OH 1867
For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Mansfield High School integrator; pastor. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; experiences integrating Mansfield High School; resistance to integration; life during segregation; Mansfield in the 1950s; racism; theological training and ministry.
Date of Interview: 22/04/2015
MOODY, Mrs. Dan (b. 1897)
MOODY, Mrs. Dan (b. 1897)
Interview ID: OH 0024
Wife of former Governor Dan Moody. Personal diary recorded during her term as First Lady of Texas while residing in the Governor’s Mansion.
Date of Interview: 01/01/1968
Interview ID: OH 0025
Reminiscences of her husband’s political career; Al Smith campaign of 1928; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; excerpts from her Mansion Diary.
Date of Interview: 16/08/1968 to 18/10/1968
MOODY, Sam B. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. Far East Air Force.
MOODY, Sam B. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. Far East Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1277
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; Clark Field, Manila, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Nagoya, Honshu, 1944-45; American air raids; liberation; his role in the Tokyo war crimes trials, 1946-47.
Date of Interview: 10/10/1996
MOORE, Daniel (b. ca. 1900)
MOORE, Daniel (b. ca. 1900)
Interview ID: OH 0077
Retired farmer. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-30. Agrarian social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; economy of the area; mule raising.
Date of Interview: 28/05/1969
MOORE, Frederick Douglass and daughters ALEXANDER, Alice (b. 1908), PUNCH, Daisy (b. ca. 1910), and YOUNG, Hazel (b. 1905); also CALHOUN, Margaret Davis (b. ca. 1910)
MOORE, Frederick Douglass and daughters ALEXANDER, Alice (b. 1908), PUNCH, Daisy (b. ca. 1910), and YOUNG, Hazel (b. 1905); also CALHOUN, Margaret Davis (b. ca. 1910)
Interview ID: OH 1212
Their reminiscences about the history of the African-American sections of Denton, Texas, 1910-85, and remembrances about their father, Frederick Douglass Moore, a renowned African-American educator in Denton, 1915-50. The original African- American section, “Quakertown,” and its origins; their early family history; Fred Moore's barbershop; appointment of Fred Moore as principal of Frederick Douglass Colored School, 1915; removal of African Americans from “Quakertown” to southeast Denton; tidbits of the Moore family history; Alexander and Young's teaching careers; their jobs at the Davis Hotel; recreational activities of African-American children before desegregation; church activities.
Date of Interview: 12/05/1986
MOORE, G. A. (b. 1938)
MOORE, G. A. (b. 1938)
Interview ID: OH 0559
Football coach. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 28/05/1982
MOORE, Mrs. Henry (b. 1884)
MOORE, Mrs. Henry (b. 1884)
Interview ID: OH 0112
Retired schoolteacher. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1900-20. Experiences as one of the first female students at Texas A & M University; experiences as a rural schoolteacher; rural social life; President William Howard Taft’s visit to La Quinta Ranch.
Date of Interview: 13/03/1970
MOORE, Robert (b. 1955)
MOORE, Robert (b. 1955)
Interview ID: OH 1804
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Longtime publisher of the Dallas Voice and activist. Childhood in Hurst, Texas; college at Texas Tech; gay community in Lubbock, Texas, in the 1970s; various jobs around Dallas; Dallas Gay News; history of the Dallas Voice; Dallas gay community during the 1980s and lack of resources and acceptance; unfinished changes; AIDS epidemic; LGBT activism; Gay Political Caucus.
Date of Interview: 26/10/2013
MOORE, William E. (b. 1912)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
MOORE, William E. (b. 1912)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1221
His experiences with Headquarters Battery, 24th Infantry Division, Artillery, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 26/04/2002
MORBY, George W. (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MORBY, George W. (b. 1915)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1453
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to enlist in the Navy, 1937; boot camp, San Diego, California, 1937; assignment to the Worden, 1937; stationing of the Worden at Pearl Harbor, September, 1939; pre-war training exercises; his description of the Pearl Harbor attack; sinking of the Worden on January 12, 1943, after going aground in Constantine Harbor, Amchitka Island, Alaska; assignment to the USS Hoel, July, 1943; operations in the Central Pacific, 1943-44; the sinking of the Hoel by Japanese naval gunfire in the Battle of Samar, October 25, 1944; his two-day ordeal clinging to a life raft; rescue and recuperation; assignment to the seaplane tender USS Pine Island, March, 1945; Okinawa Campaign and kamikaze attacks, April-May, 1945.
Date of Interview: 26/04/2002
MORENO, Lissette (b. 1983)
MORENO, Lissette (b. 1983)
Interview ID: OH 1930
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Immigrating with her family from Monterey, Mexico at the age of five; being a role model to younger siblings; struggles in school with limited access of support for non-English speaking students; church involvement; early work life; invited to be the first Dreamer to speak to the Texas Senate and share her story; DREAM Act, DACA influence; journey in higher education; invited in 2015 to Washington D.C. to hear Pope Francis address Congress; political views and personal and spiritual growth.
Date of Interview: 17/10/2015
MORGAN, Alvin (b. 1916)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
MORGAN, Alvin (b. 1916)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1183
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; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944-45, and American air raids; liberation.
Date of Interview: 17/02/1997 to 24/02/1997, 03/03/1997
MORGAN, Glenn T. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MORGAN, Glenn T. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1689
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Childhood in Oklahoma, Illinois, and other locales; father’s work as an oil field machinist; enlistment in the U.S. Navy following 1941 high school graduation; boot camp; assignment to drum and bugle corps; marriage to Mertie Jo Morgan; December 1943 assignment to cruiser USS Indianapolis; description of various missions in South Pacific; March 1945 kamikaze attack on the Indianapolis; return to States and preparation for invasion of Japan; return to Tinian in the Pacific theater with top-secret cargo: the components for “Little Boy,” the first atomic bomb; July 1945 sinking of the Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine; survivors’ experience in life rafts, including close encounters with sharks; rescue from the USS Ringness; survivor reunions; discharge; civilian career with Texaco and as a mechanic/small business operator; feelings toward Japanese.
Date of Interview: 27/04/2009
MORK, Lauren (b. 1979)
MORK, Lauren (b. 1979)
Interview ID: OH 1611
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Instructor for Outward Bound wilderness program in Redford, Texas. Experiences growing up in rural Pennsylvania; love of the outdoors; interactions with people of Redford; opinions regarding shooting of Esequiel Hernandez, Jr., and activities of U.S. Border Patrol.
Date of Interview: 29/10/2006
MORNE'Y, Exie Jean Alaman (b. 1939)
MORNE'Y, Exie Jean Alaman (b. 1939)
Interview ID: OH 1825
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil Rights activist and poet. Childhood in West Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth; family history; life during segregation; education; civil rights activism; process of desegregation; attending North Texas State University (now UNT); experiences with racism; poetry; John F. Kennedy assassination; church fellowship.
Date of Interview: 26/02/2014
MORRIS, Bessie (b. 1894)
MORRIS, Bessie (b. 1894)
Interview ID: OH 0119
Homemaker. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-20. Immigration from western Kansas; clearing the land; cotton farming; race relations; hurricane of 1919; rural social life.
Date of Interview: 29/05/1969
MORRIS, Herbert R. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
MORRIS, Herbert R. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0780
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; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Changi Jail, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 08/05/1989
MORRIS, JoEarl (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 14th Bomb Wing. 392nd Bomb Group. 2nd Bomb Division. 8th Air Force.
MORRIS, JoEarl (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 14th Bomb Wing. 392nd Bomb Group. 2nd Bomb Division. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1337
His experiences as a B-24 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His education and employment in the oil industry; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Victory Field, Vernon, Texas, 1942; his washing out of pilot training; ground school, Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, Texas, 1942; bombardier training, Midland Air Force Base, Midland, Texas, 1942; navigator training, Hondo, Texas, 1942; duty as an instructor at Midland Air Force Base, 1942-43; radar training, Boca Raton, Florida, 1943; H2X radar training at Langley Field, Virginia, 1943; his assignment to the 14th Bomb Wing, 2nd Bomb Division, in England as a lead bombardier, 1944; his description of German flak and fighter opposition; his transfer to the 392nd Bomb Group, 1944; his comments about various combat missions; his promotion to group navigator, 1944; description of the typical post-mission routine; his role in the postwar evaluation of Allied bomb damage to German cities; his return to the States and mustering out of the military, October, 1945.
Date of Interview: 03/02/2000
MORRISON, Ed, Jr. (b. 1921)
Morrison Milling Company.
MORRISON, Ed, Jr. (b. 1921)
Morrison Milling Company.Interview ID: OHB 0088
Chairman of the board, Morrison Milling Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with Red Star Milling Company, Wichita, Kansas; father’s purchase of Alliance Milling Company, Denton, 1936; history of Alliance Milling Company; father’s short-term financing of milling company; description of personnel and shipping procedures; effect of World War II on the milling business; explanation of “brown flour” days; description of company’s American markets; father’s efforts to bring Santa Fe railroad to Denton; father’s civic activities; description of company’s brand products; apprenticeship experiences working for company; family involvement in company; establishment of grain testing and analysis laboratory; introduction of kit business, 1965; percentage breakdown of product sales; description of milling equipment; competition in prepared mixes product line; qualities and training of personnel; comments on OSHA and safety in work place; personal and company’s civic participation; comments on use of advertising; dealings with EEOC; comments on government’s handling of aflatoxin incident, 1971; effects of government regulations on small companies; views on conversion to metric system; comments on American farmers’ plight; responsibilities as chief executive officer; comments on company’s short and long-range plans; importance of formal education for business and life; growth of sales and company assets, early 1980s; comments on internal changes and financing plant expansion; changes in product packaging; description of USDA’s Payment-In-Kind program; comments on consumer usage of product mixes; views on company’s future.
Date of Interview: 21/06/1978 to 03/07/1978, 18/07/1979 to 03/04/1983
MOSS, Jack (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
MOSS, Jack (b. 1924)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0045
Businessman, 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; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Bangkok, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 19/07/1970
MOUDY, Earl (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
MOUDY, Earl (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0205
His experiences at Hickam Field with base security during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 18/05/1974
MOURAD, Mourad Assad, and Renee Mourad (b. 1964)
MOURAD, Mourad Assad, and Renee Mourad (b. 1964)
Interview ID: OH 1752
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Lebanese-born immigrants to Fort Worth, Texas. Life in Lebanon; Lebanese Civil War; move to Paraguay en route to the U.S.; reasons for moving to Texas; children and grandchildren; connections to Lebanon; making the decision to leave Lebanon during the Civil War; comparison of growing up in Lebanon and the U.S.; family pride in Lebanese heritage; expectations about the U.S.; first impressions of America; cultural traditions brought to the U.S.; cuisine.
Date of Interview: 08/12/2012
MUCH, Roy D. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 987th Field Artillery Battalion.
MUCH, Roy D. (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 987th Field Artillery Battalion.Interview ID: OH 1379
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and employment; basic training in the artillery, Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas, 1942; general comments about his experiences at Normandy, Saint-Lô, liberation of Paris, Huertgen Forest, Remagen Bridge, Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Czechoslovakia.
Date of Interview: 03/02/1999
MUHL, Col. Rene (Ret.) (b. 1951)
U.S. Air Force Gulf War Veteran.
MUHL, Col. Rene (Ret.) (b. 1951)
U.S. Air Force Gulf War Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1627
For the Tarrant County War Veteran Project. UNT graduate student. Memories of “military brat” childhood; education at North Texas State University and participation in protests against Vietnam War; teaching career at Tarrant County College; decision to join U.S. Air Force and attend Officer Candidate School; earning of officer’s commission in 1979 and assignment to field of munitions; Air Force career, including service at multiple bases stateside and overseas; experiences with sexism in USAF; wartime experience; attendance at Air War College; retirement and return to graduate school to pursue master’s in sculpting.
Date of Interview: 15/10/2007
MUJICA, Mary Louise (b. 1914)
MUJICA, Mary Louise (b. 1914)
Interview ID: OH 0621
Recollections concerning her Basque parents, her work at the Bastanchury Ranch, and the raising of her children in America; discussion of Basque customs and folkways.
Date of Interview: 15/02/1984
MULLEN, W. P. (b. 1889)
MULLEN, W. P. (b. 1889)
Interview ID: OH 0078
Retired carpenter, farmer, municipal employee. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the Coastal Bend area of south Texas, 1910-50. Life on the Taft Ranch; President William Howard Taft’s visit; agrarian social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; comments about African Americans.
Date of Interview: 29/05/1969
MUNCY, O. R. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MUNCY, O. R. (b. 1923)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0395
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 29/05/1969
MUNN, John P. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
MUNN, John P. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0800
His experiences at Wheeler field with the 18th Pursuit Group, 45th Squadron, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/04/1990
MURDOCK, Al (b. 1935)
MURDOCK, Al (b. 1935)
Interview ID: OH 1998
UNT alumnus and former faculty member, Denton pastor, and retirement center administrator. Childhood, education, and perceptions of race relations in Florida and Texas; education at UNT, Southern Baptist College, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; career as associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Denton; experiences with race relations and civil rights at First United and in Denton generally; experiences with Denton Ministers Alliance and Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; influences of Bill Moyers and Carlyle Marney; perceptions of modern-day race relations, including the Black Lives Matter movement.
Date of Interview: 18/06/2020
MURPHEY, Bob (b. 1921)
Texas House of Representatives.
MURPHEY, Bob (b. 1921)
Texas House of Representatives.Interview ID: OH 0043
Attorney, former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Texas House of Representatives, public speaker, nephew of former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences as Sergeant-at-Arms, 1949-53; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; comments about Coke Stevenson.
Date of Interview: 19/04/1969
MURPHEY, John (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MURPHEY, John (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0258
His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/12/1974
MURPHY, Elizabeth (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps.
MURPHY, Elizabeth (b. 1917)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 0373
Her experiences at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 30/05/1977
MURPHY, J. R. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MURPHY, J. R. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0326
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with the Supply Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1976
MURPHY, John Patrick (b. 1961)
MURPHY, John Patrick (b. 1961)
Interview ID: OH 2010
UNT professor of jazz studies. His youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society. His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986), playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab Band and at venues around Denton. His research as an ethnomusicologist studying Cuban and Brazilian music and work as a professor at Western Illinois University (1992-2001) then the University of North Texas (2001-2020) where he served in faculty and administrative roles to further develop the jazz studies program and help preserve the program’s history.
Date of Interview: 06/04/2021
MURRELL, Wyn L. (b. 1915)
Moore Business Forms.
MURRELL, Wyn L. (b. 1915)
Moore Business Forms.Interview ID: OHB 0006
Industrial executive, Moore Business Forms, Denton, Texas. Education, early work background; planning manager of Moore Business Forms, Dallas; location and building of manufacturing facilities in Denton, 1945; public relations, communications, company philosophy; location of divisional headquarters in Denton; products; growth and expansion; corporate structure; employee relations; views on federal regulations; attitudes toward organized labor; early company history.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1975
MUSE, M. Lamar (b. ca. 1919)
MUSE, M. Lamar (b. ca. 1919)
Interview ID: OHB 0001
Airline executive. Education; background in accounting; executive experiences with Trans-Texas airways; American Airlines, Southern Airways, Central Airlines (merged with Frontier), Universal Airlines; presidency of Southwest Airlines; legal battles; growth and expansion; advertising; relations with Dallas and Fort Worth city governments; competition with other airlines; efficiency of Southwest Airlines; fare price wars; views on government regulations, subsidies, environmentalists; comments about Dallas-Fort Worth Airport; factors in growth and success of Southwest Airlines; attitudes toward organized labor; Texas economic climate and entrepreneurship.
Date of Interview: 24/03/1976
MUSICK, Clay H. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MUSICK, Clay H. (b. 1917)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0322
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/05/1976
MYERS, Francie (b. ca. 1910)
MYERS, Francie (b. ca. 1910)
Interview ID: OH 1461
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her reminiscences about rural life in northern Denton County and southern Cooke County, Texas, 1910-1987; her ancestors’ role in the founding of Valley View, Texas; evolution of the family farm; canning and food preservation; rural social activities; lightning storms and tornadoes; traveling peddlers; crops; doctors and folk remedies.
Date of Interview: 24/08/2001
MYERS, J.M. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
MYERS, J.M. (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0753
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 23/04/1988
MYERS, Janell (b. 1954)
MYERS, Janell (b. 1954)
Interview ID: OH 1511
Counselor. Her recollections concerning the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, Labor Day Weekend, 1969. Her conservative family background in
Dallas, Texas; her attraction to the hippie counterculture as a teenager; hanging out with hippies in Lee Park in Dallas; her college experience at North Texas State University in Denton; her participation in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and sit-ins; her admiration of singer Janis Joplin; her decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; activities of the Hog Farm at the festival; use of drugs and alcohol at the festival; comments about the various rock groups at the festival; activities of “Wavy Gravy”; lasting memories of the festival.
Date of Interview: 16/08/2003
MYERS, Lawrence (b. 1915)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.
MYERS, Lawrence (b. 1915)
U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0506
His experiences at Hickam Field with Headquarters Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/06/1980
MYNIER, Velma (b. 1911)
South-Park Manor Nursing Homes.
MYNIER, Velma (b. 1911)
South-Park Manor Nursing Homes.Interview ID: OHB 0098
Owner and administrator, South-Park Manor Nursing Homes, Corpus Christi and Refugio, Texas. Family background; experiences at Flour Bluff, Nueces County, during hurricane of 1919; employments as bookkeeper for husband’s car dealership, Kingsville, Texas, 1930s; effects of Depression in Kingsville; work with Red Cross during World War II and accounting job for car dealership, New Orleans, 1950s; opening of nursing home, Corpus Christi, 1958; comments on conditions of “rest homes” in Texas, 1950s; acceptance of Oklahoma University Nursing Home Administration fellowship, 1962; loss of leased land for nursing home and difficulty obtaining financing for new home; establishment of one hundredbed home, Corpus Christi; personnel of nursing home; comments on methods of payment by patients; views on nursing home chain operations; addition of sixty-fourbed facility in Refugio, 1964; importance of public relations activities; comments on government regulations and dealings with Health Department; training of personnel; reporting requirements for nursing homes; increase in mental patients at homes; dealings with EEOC; rewards of working in nursing home profession.
Date of Interview: 19/10/1984
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