For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer and manager. Childhood in Dodson, Texas, and Vinson, Oklahoma; education at Bethany Nazarene College and Southwestern Oklahoma State University; career with NASA in mission control, space shuttle development, and software development, and International Space Station programs; duties on various…
Reminiscences and experiences of a long-time resident of Denton, Texas; Oklahoma land rush; life in Denton during the 1920s and 1930s; Great Depression; farm life.
Episcopalian missionary. His experiences as a civilian internee of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Capture on Mindanao; Davao internment camp, 1942-43; Santo Tomas, Manila, 1943; fall of Manila and liberation, 1945.
Miscellaneous comments about his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. U. S. Naval Academy, 1935-39; assignment to USS Enterprise, 1939; assignment to USS Glimer, 1939-41; flight training at Pensacola, 1941; assignment to Advanced Carrier Training Group (Pacific), 1941-42; assignment to VF-6 (Fighting 6) aboard the USS Enterprise,…
His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his participation in the Aleutians Campaign, June 1942, and the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” May 1944; surrender of Rota Island, September 2, 1945.
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Preliminary training in New Mexico, Texas, Oregon, and Kansas; troop convoy to England, 1944; preparations for the Normandy Invasion, 1944; entry into Normandy on D + 6; transfer to 9th Air Force; initiation to combat; bombing of Saint Lô, July 25, 1944; supplying U.S. fighters and…
Labor arbitrator, Lubbock, Texas; director of regional War Labor Board, Dallas, Texas. Family background; farming near Beach, North Dakota; activities as principal in Dodge, North Dakota; employment in political science department at University of North Dakota, 1937; experiences during the Great Depression; research on crop insurance and liberty…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War veteran. Childhood in Brook Park, Ohio; decisions to drop out of high school and to enlist in the U.S. Army; basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala.,; clerical training; assignment to Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. and base in Heidelberg, Germany; “coming out” experience with self and with…
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. Reflections on moving from Guadalajara, Mexico to Texas with her family as a small child; the struggles and fears her family has faced as undocumented immigrants; her education experiences; thoughts on the DREAM Act.
An interview with John Bradley Adair concerning his service in the United States Air Force during the First Gulf War. Discusses his reason for joining the Air Force; overall service record; deployment to the Middle East; flight line aircraft maintenance; living conditions and life in the theater; the presence of chemical weapons in the theater…
Businessman, Army veteran, 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; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Zentsuji, Shikoku, 1943; Rokuroshi, Honshu, 1945; liberation.
Co-owner of Adams Abstract Company and rancher, Robert Lee, Texas; Chairman of Board, City Savings, San Angelo, Texas. Family background; experiences growing up on farm near Miles, Texas; comments on teaching at Klattenhoff and Robert Lee public schools; comments on procedures of abstract companies; explanation of different types of abstracts and…
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Childhood in Wheelock, Texas; attending Bishop College; career in elementary and middle-school education; community involvement; awareness of race; life under segregation; move to Dallas; Dallas school integration; history of Wheelock; importance of education; legacy of the Civil Rights Act.
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Educator, homesteader, and simple life advocate. Childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; discovery of the Nearings; simple life community in Maine.
Owner and operator of Adams Exterminating Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with Morrison Milling Company and International Exterminating Company, Denton; experiences in Navy at end of World War II; employment with father’s company, Adams Exterminating, 1950; comments on public view of pest control business, 1940s;…
Nigerian-American small business owner located in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Olaoluwa speaks on matters relating to Texas Business History. As an immigrant resident in southern US, he discusses about himself and the business. How he has been able to acclimatize and navigate through requirements and demands surrounding business operations in Texas.
Schoolteacher, community activist, homemaker. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Group social activities and parties; desegregation of public places in Denton; school desegregation; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; public housing; job…
ADKINS, Dorothy: For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Texas State Fair; childhood; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; activism; teaching career; contemporary times; white privilege and power.
Interview concerning experiences working with Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force in various different civilian jobs, as well as comparing the cultures of the three, between 1972-1997.
Interview concerning the culture of the Citadel, Military College of South Carolina, 1975-1979. Military culture, officer/officer candidate culture, military/civilian cultural melding, Vietnam, post-Vietnam.
Businessman, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Republican. General views concerning problems in Texas state government. Two-party politics; annual legislative sessions; legislative pay; ethics legislation; single-member districts; constitutional revision; “Dirty Thirty”; insurance legislation.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-seventh Legislature. Elections of 1980; initiative-referendum; interest rates; tax relief; state water plan; property tax legislation; law-and-order issues; comments about Governor William Clements; redistricting; Speaker Bill Clayton and Brilab; fish and game laws.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. House speakership race; appropriations; committee appointments; strip mining bill; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
