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DAVIS, Leonard (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0375
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

DILLON, Joe C. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0508
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

EAKMAN, Beth (b. 1964)

Interview ID#
OH 1174
Her experiences concerning the establishment of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Her early introduction to feminism while a student at Texas Christian University, 1980s; activities with Planned Parenthood in Fort Worth; activities with Choice Dallas; involvement with the North Texas Democrats and Ann Richards's…

EPHRAM, Lavonia (b. ca. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0844
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Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Youth in East Texas; farm life; education in segregated schools; marriage and move to Dallas; employment as a domestic; African-American housing in Dallas; decision to buy in Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; Hamilton Park School; desegregation of Hamilton Park…

FERNANDEZ, Francis X. (b. 1933)

Interview ID#
OH 0690
Roman Catholic priest. His recollections of customs, folklore, and superstitions in the Basque country of Spain; experiences as a Capuchin seminarian; reminiscences about the Spanish Civil War; recent social changes in the Basque country.

FORSMAN, Melfred L. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0521
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, 1944-45; solitary…

GARBO, William, Sr. (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 1566
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Landscape architect. His experiences with G Troop, 112th Cavalry, in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Growing up in an Italian-American family in Mississippi during the Great Depression; volunteering for the draft and processing at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1943; basic training at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, 1943…

GIPSON, James J. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0830
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in West Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3892 camp at the Colorado National Monument (NP-8-C) near Grand Junction, Colorado; transfer to a side camp in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.

GREEN, Charles (b. ca. 1941)

Interview ID#
OH 1630
Alumnus of North Texas State University. Experiences growing up with racial segregation in High, Texas; graduation from high school in 1959; initial decision to attend Paris Junior College and subsequent decision to attend North Texas beginning in 1961; campus life at North Texas, particularly involvement in Baptist Student Union; graduation with…

HA, Dong Nguyen (b. 1968)

Interview ID#
OH 1741
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Vietnamese-born immigrant to Dallas and UNT graduate student. Birth and childhood in Tam Ky, Vietnam; Vietnamese family life; memories of the Vietnam War; American involvement in Vietnam; memory of the fall of Saigon and the North Vietnamese invasion; experience as a refugee in 1975; American…

HANKS, Vernon (b. 1908)

Interview ID#
OH 1294
His experiences as a Navy chaplain in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early career in the ministry; the coming of war and his decision to join the Chaplain Corps; Navy Chaplaincy School, Norfolk, Virginia, 1942; stateside duties, Cherry Point, North Carolina, and Bunker Hill, Indiana, 1942-43; his views of a chaplain’s role and…

HATCHER, William (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1681
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in rural Tenn.; family’s experiences in the Great Depression; decision to attend University of Tennessee-Knoxville and major in mechanical engineering; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to join U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in 1942; 1943 call-up; basic…

HENSON, Lee (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1547
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Coleman County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Mesa Verda, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.

HOLLINGSHEAD, Cecil (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0609
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-11 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

HUGHES, Sarah T. (b. 1896)

Interview ID#
OH 0489
Her experiences and personal views concerning the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, the Dallas County Jail, the constitutionality of abortion, and the desegregation of the Dallas Independent School District.

JAGOE, Joe (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OHB 0083
Owner and operator, Jagoe Abstract Company, Denton, Texas and co-owner, Lewisville Fishing Barge, Lewisville, Texas. Family background; history of Carroll’s abstract business and Jagoe Abstract Company; history of Denton courthouses; origins of First Mondays in Denton; Denton Transportation, 1920s; comments on father’s experiences operating…

JONES, Grant (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0283
Insurance executive, member of the Texas Senate from Abilene, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Personal political philosophy; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; personal legislation.

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…

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…

LANG, Marguerite (b. ca. 1900)

Interview ID#
OH 0044
Homemaker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Portland, Texas, 1890-1914; agrarian life.

LEWIS, Everett (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 1219
Civil servant. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mississippi; joining the CCC; assignment to SCS-11 in Buford, Georgia; description of camp; life in camp.

MANGREM, Clarence (b. 1920)

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

McADAMS, Linnie (b. ca. 1937)

Interview ID#
OH 0718
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship in the 1960s and 1970s. Educational experiences in segregated schools; living conditions in the African-American section of Denton; joining the Fellowship; Denton Christian Preschool; desegregation of Denton schools; early meetings…

MERCER, William E. (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 1039
His experiences as a survivor of the sinking of the destroyer USS Johnston during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944.

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…