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HILL, John (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 1381
Businessman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, December, 1941; assignment as a radio communications officer; duty on an LST around Kavieng; construction of a radio station on Emirau; transfer to the cruiser USS Boise, 1944; personal observations about General Douglas A. MacArthur; Battle of Leyte…

HORTON, Carl (b. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 1198
Operating room nurse. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1961-70. Assignment to Yokohama, Japan, and treatment of Vietnam battle casualties, 1966-69; assignment to Dong Tam with 3rd Surgical Hospital, 1969; treatment of battle casualties in operating room; living accommodations; hospital facilities; transfer of 3rd Surgical Hospital to…

IRELAND, Tennie (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1613
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former textile mill worker. Experiences Experiences growing up in McKinney; work career at Texas Textile Mill beginning at age thirteen; her experiences and other family members’ experiences at mill; experience in “mill block” housing; union organizing; memories of 1948 tornado that destroyed the…

JOHNSEN, Kenneth G. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1372
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Army Air Forces, 1940; acceptance in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; his resignation from the Aviation Cadet Program during basic flight training as the result of the death of a close friend in a plane crash; assignment to the 426th Air Force band, Waco,…

JOSEPHSON, Leigh D. (b. 1907)

Interview ID#
Oh 0688
Executive. Employment with Standard Oil of California, 1926-39; assignment to Bahrain and transfer to Caltex; construction of Ras Tanura refinery in Saudi Arabia; bombing of the Bapco refinery in Bahrain; refinery operations in Bahrain during World War II; early relationship, Bapco and Caltex; Bapco and the royal family of Bahrain; British…

KERR, Baine P. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0947
Attorney. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Guadalcanal, 1942-43; machine gun wound at Guadalcanal; Tarawa, 1943; Kwajalein, 1943; Saipan and Tinian, 1944; assignment to legal office at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

KOLBERT, Byron (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0411
His experiences at Bellows Field with the 86th Observation Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

LAY, Herman (b. ca. 1915)

Interview ID#
OHB 0012
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Chairman of board, Pepsi Company. Family background, education, early work experience; cracker and snack food business; independent distributor; formation of H. W. Lay Distributing company; World War II; expansion, buying companies; merger with Frito; merger with Pepsi-Cola; international expansion; diversification; advertising, financing,…

LONG, Clifton (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OHB 0043
Vice-president and general sales manager, Tex Tan Western Leather Company, Yoakum, Texas. Family background; comments on Depression in Yoakum; experiences in Army and as prisoner-of-war of Germans during World War II; employment as assistant personnel manager and salesman for Tex Tan; product line; sale of business to Charles Tandy and company…

MASSEY, Seth (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OH 1205
Businessman. His reminiscences about the history of Denton, Texas, 1920-1976. Community swimming pools; comments about Hollywood actress Ann Sheridan; Massey and Hoffer Service Station; Great Depression; Interurban streetcars; Quakertown [African-American section of Denton].

McELVANEY, Dr. William (b. 1928)

Interview ID#
OH 1670
Dallas clergyman and social activist. Childhood and education in Dallas; membership in Methodist Church; pursuit of undergraduate and MBA degrees from Southern Methodist University; career in banking and oil businesses; decision to enter Perkins School of Theology at SMU and Union Theology Seminary in New York; influence of Reinhold Niebuhr;…

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.

MORGAN, Alvin (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 1183
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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.

NAUGHTON, Willard B. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0913
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Colorado and Kansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 4703 near Council Grove, Kansas; description of camp; life in camp.

TAYLOR, Marcia (b. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 1068
Homemaker. Her recollections concerning the history of the Nocona Boot Company and its founder, Ms. Enid Justin.

TISON, Joe (b. 1937)

Interview ID#
OH 1712
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Weatherford resident, school administrator, and mayor. Childhood in Memphis, Tenn., and various other locales including Weatherford; education in Weatherford public schools, Weatherford College, and North Texas State College; career as teacher, principal and superintendent in Aledo and Weatherford ISDs;…

VELA, Dr. Gerard Roland (b. 1927)

Interview ID#
OH 1628
UNT Professor Emeritus of Microbiology. Family history; childhood and early education in Crystal City and San Antonio, Texas; service in World War II-era U.S. Navy; undergraduate education at San Antonio College and University of Texas-Austin; love of chemistry, genetics, and microbiology; graduate education at UT-Austin; fellowship at Harvard…

WEDDINGTON, Sarah (b. 1945)

Interview ID#
OH 0403
Attorney, member of the Texas Legislature from Austin, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Budget surplus; highway appropriations; public school financing; Peveto Bill and property taxation; personal legislation.

WILKERSON, Archie (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 0368
Realtor. His experiences with VP-23 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

WOOD, George (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OH 0170
Scientist with the Soil Conservation Service. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

WEGER, Laura Nevada (b. 1979)

Interview ID#
OH 1763
For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, Cryptologic Technician, Technical, Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran. Childhood moving around the United States; family history of military service; reasons for joining the Navy; reaction of family to enlistment; training as a cryptological technician; first duty station…

PATTON, Henry (b. ca. 1905)

Interview ID#
OH 0034
Banker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Port Aransas and Aransas Pass, Texas, 1920-70.

PETERSON, Earl (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0364
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 3rd Engineers during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

SCROGGS, Jack B. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0083
College professor. His experiences while chair of the faculty search committee that was responsible for the selection of C. C. (“Jitter”) Nolen as president of North Texas State University.

SHIVERS, Allan (b. 1907)

Interview ID#
OH 0026
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Former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. Observations on political career of Lyndon Johnson; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952; Johnson presidential race of 1960; Texas Democratic politics, 1952-56; Fifty-third State Legislature; governor’s role in state…