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ADKINS, Dorothy (b. ca. 1925)

Interview ID#
OH 0705
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…

ALLRED, David (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OH 0512
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Sam Houston Caucus; Impressions of Governor William Clements, Speaker Bill Clayton; consumer legislation; interest rates; tax relief; Peveto bill; comments about “Killer Bees.”

ASTON, Rogers (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0936
His experiences aboard LST-446 during the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942-43; participation in the landings on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and Bougainville; Marianas campaign and landings at Saipan and Guam, 1944.

BARROW, Frank and Betty Ann (both b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1618
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton residents. Frank’s childhood in Jasper County, Tex., and family’s move to Denton; career; education at North Texas State College and Louisiana State University; career as radio announcer, including at Denton’s KDNT radio station and the Atlantic Radio Network; wartime service in the…

BENTON, Willie L. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0285
Electrician. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war embassy duty in Peking, north China, with 6th Marines; capture in Peking; Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1942-45; Fengtai and Kiangwang Prison Camps, 1945; Pusan, Korea, 1945; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.

BOLAR, James M. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0772
His experiences while aboard the minelayer USS Ogallala during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

BRENNER Sr., Joseph Andrew (b. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 1696
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Hungarian-American immigrant to Weatherford, Texas. Family history; childhood and education in Budapest, Hungary; career as a tool and die machinist; father’s service in German Luftwaffe; memories of Soviet Army entering Budapest in 1945; involvement with brothers in anti-Soviet and anti-…

BRYANT, John (b. 1947)

Interview ID#
OH 0540
Attorney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Biographical information; political philosophy; decision to enter politics; comments about Speaker Bill Clayton, Governor William Clements; House Study Group; House rules; public school…

CALLAHAN, Eugene (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 0343
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

CHAPMAN, Bob L. (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OHB 0093
President, Commercial Bank of Mason and owner, Mason Auto Supply, Mason, Texas. Family background; early employment at Humble State Bank and as state bank examiner; comments on defalcations; employment as bank manager in Nixon, Texas; history of commercial Bank of Mason; manager and president of Commercial Bank, 1967; comments on bank loans in…

CLEMENT, Raymond (b. 1938)

Interview ID#
OH 0602
High school coach. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

COTTINGAME, William (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0445
His experiences while aboard the aircraft tender USS Curtiss during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

CRUMBLING, William H. (b. 1927)

Interview ID#
OH 1260
Truck driver. His experiences in the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1945-47. Assignment to Regensburg; patrols to outlying villages; relations with former SS troops; comments about black market activities; social life; physical destruction of Nazi symbols and insignia; visit to Dachau; relations between American troops and civilians; visit to…

DAVIS, Truett L. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0414
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

DITTUS, Frederick W. (b. 1897)

Interview ID#
OH 0675
Executive. Education; early job experience with Standard Oil Company of California; Dittus-Boelter equation; pre-World War II experiences in Nazi Germany; construction of the Bahrain refinery for Bapco; formation of Caltex, 1936; transfer to Caltex; activities during World War II; postwar refinery expansion; evolution of Technical Services…

EARTHMAN, Jim (b. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 0142
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. House Speakership race; House rules reform; appropriations bill; insurance legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith.

ERSKINE, Jake C. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1104
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Vernon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2874 in Perryton, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

FIELDS, Le Verne (b. ca. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 0835
Community leader. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-90. Youth in segregated East Texas; lack of housing for African Americans; decision to buy a home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; flooding problems; employment; entertainment and social activities; church activities; desegregation of the Hamilton Park School;…

FOSTER, J. Fagg (b. ca. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0015
His involvement in the Rainey controversy while a graduate assistant at the University of Texas, 1944-45.

GARVER, Mervin (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1309
His experiences as a defense worker at Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1941-45. His education and childhood during the Great Depression; employment in the core room at Riverside Foundry; his draft classification as 4-F due to psychoneurosis; his personal feelings about being classified 4-F; local reaction to his 4-F status;…

GLENN, Bob (b. 1942).

Interview ID#
OH 1706
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas. Family history; birth, childhood, and education in Weatherford; 1961 enlistment in U.S. Army; service at various stateside bases; career in banking industry; changes in Weatherford economy.

GREEN, Mae (b. 1932)

Interview ID#
OH 1593
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. African American resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of childhood in Robertson County, Texas, farming family; experience in one-room, all-black schoolhouse and E.A. Kemp High School; marriage to Roland Green and decision to move to Abilene, Texas; separation from Roland Green and…

HAILE, Homer L. (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 1144
His experiences as a crew member of a B-24 in the European Theater during World War II. Stateside training; raid to Kiel, Germany; raid to Oschersleben, Germany; other raids.

HARD, Ilo (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0510
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; Singapore, 1944-45; liberation.

HAUGH, William M. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1290
Foundry superintendent. His experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II. Educational background; youth on the family farm; employment as a patternmaker at Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1938; hand grenade production at Riverside Foundry; induction into the Army and basic training, Camp Blanding,…