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…

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…

Postal worker, 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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance in Burma,…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 5702 at Camp North Fork (F-123) near Pierce, Idaho; transfer to Company 229 at F-188 near Emida, Idaho; description of camps; life in camps.

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in North Fort Worth and vocational education received at Technical High School; enlistment in U.S. Navy at age of seventeen; assignment to USS Rockaway and USS Wyandot, USS Paiute, and USS Florida; training missions in Pacific Ocean; various missions to North Africa, France, and…

Security administrator. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Wake Island and capture, 1942; Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1942; Kiangwang Prison Camp, 1942-45; Pusan, Korea, 1945; coal mining at Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.

For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of childhood in the Humble Town community of Cisco; experience in all-black public schools; marriage to Robby Jones and decision to move to California and experiences there; decision to move back to Cisco following an earthquake;…

His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender USS Tangier during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Central and North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 859 in Buffalo Pasture (BF-2) near Cache, Oklahoma; company move to Bitter Lake Refuge (FW-3) near Roswell, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.

His experiences as an instructor pilot and ferry pilot, and missions flying cargo over “the Hump” (the Himalayas) during World War II.

His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Induction and stateside training, Camp Hulen, Palacios, Texas, and Camp Cook, Lompoc, California, 1942-43; operations in New Guinea, 1943-44; invasion of Toem, 1944; invasion of Leyte, 1944; invasion of Mindoro, 1944; eyewitness accounts of kamikaze attacks; operations around Zamboanga,…

Businessman. His experiences concerning the Kaiser Permanente-Prudential Insurance Company joint venture in providing health care.

College professor. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Mesquite, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-91. Early life as daughter of an African-American sharecropper; segregated education; African-American housing in Dallas during the 1940s and 1950s; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements and pride in ownership; transportation problems; shopping; flooding and drainage…

Attorney. Observations on the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1920-71. Cotton farming; Irish settlers and the Ku Klux Klan; experiences as an attorney; gambling; development of the Aransas County Airport; oil exploration; housing subdivisions; Coastal Bend Regional Planning Commission; hurricanes; agriculture; property values…

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; Nakhom Pathon, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.

His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Wordenduring the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Businessman. His experiences as a member of the football teamduring the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

African-American alumna of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood and early education in Fort Worth, Texas, including experiences at I.M. Terrell High School; decision to enroll at North Texas as a sixteen-year-old high school graduate in 1957; off-campus life in “Shack Town” and support from black citizens of Denton; social…

His experiences at Mobile hospital Number 2 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Air Force Major, Logistics Planning Officer (21R), Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Veteran. Childhood in Nebraska; reasons for joining the Air Force; experiences in the University of Nebraska ROTC program and tech school; memories of September 11th attacks while in tech…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas; Civil/structural engineer and businessman. Childhood in Shiraz, Iran; coming to America at fourteen by himself; living with extended family in Texas; adjusting to America and learning English; parents’ escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution;…

For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Telephone operator and EEOC member and activist. Childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans’ experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Uzbekistani-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas. Childhood in Uzbekistan; move to the U.S. at age eleven; transition to American school system; first impressions of the U.S.; mother’s family in Russia; transition of Uzbekistan from a Soviet satellite to an independent Muslim nation;…