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SIMPSON, James B. (b. 1916) and Dorothy (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0841
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Their experiences as residents of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1960-90 Early life in rural Texas; Jim Crowism in Dallas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; employment; home improvements; transportation problems; church activities; Civil League; property restrictions; commercial encroachment; traffic problems; political activities; school…

SMITH, Wilbur (b. 1902)

Interview ID#
OH 1060
His recollections of the Progressive Era in Texarkana, Texas. Memories of grandparents and parents; ethnic groups; education and teachers; boarding houses and hotels; downtown businesses; his mother’s business activities; church activities.

STANLEY, Henry (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0144
Postal worker, Army Air Forces veteran (454th Ordnance Squadron in Savannah, GA; later to become a part of the 464th Ordnance, 27th Bomb Group, Far East Air Force), 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;…

STROUD, James (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 0090
Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences as an employee in the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising…

REESE, Seldon D. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0426
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, and American…

RILEY, George V. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0982
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1814 at Camp G-136-A in Duncan, Arizona; company move to Camp G-173-A in Fredonia, Arizona; Company 3892 at Camp NP-8-C in Grand Junction, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.

PRICE, Rayford (b. 1937)

Interview ID#
OH 0154
Attorney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Palestine, Democrat. General views concerning problems in Texas state government. Taxation; lobby activities; annual legislative sessions; reforms in the office of House Speaker; insurance legislation; appropriations; legislative ethics; redistricting; House-Senate relations.

ROUSSEAU, Fred (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0347
His experiences at Hickam Field with the Base Fire Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

TAFFET, David (b. 1953)

Interview ID#
OH 1835
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Journalist and long-time Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in New York City; awareness of sexuality; coming out; college at SUNY-Albany; move to Dallas; AIDS crisis in Dallas; Dallas LGBT history; Dallas gay community; the Dallas Voice; Dallas Buyers Club; struggle for marriage equality and other rights; the…

MOODY, Floyd (b. 1939)

Interview ID#
OH 1867
For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Mansfield High School integrator; pastor. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; experiences integrating Mansfield High School; resistance to integration; life during segregation; Mansfield in the 1950s; racism; theological training and ministry.

BELL, Catherine (b. ca. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1896
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; educational and professional background; experiences with segregation; Denton desegregation; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; activities and friendships; continued community involvement; contemporary status of civil rights.

CHAVEZ, Antonio (b. 1939)

Interview ID#
OH 1830
Mexican American graduate of North Texas State University (now UNT). Childhood in Sonora, Texas; education in segregated and integrated schools; family history; experience attending NTSU.

McDANIEL, George (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0173
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

INGMAN, Stan (b. 1939)

Growing up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia where the economy was based on industrial chemical production and coal mining, Stan Ingman experienced environmental degradation first-hand. An affinity for the outdoors and a concern for public health resulted in degrees in botany, rural communities and medical sociology. The “engaged university”…

BOWLING, Rudy (b. 1945)

Interview ID#
OH 1953
Bowling, Rudy: Customer Service Agent. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s…

SMITH, C. Dan (b. 1938)

Interview ID#
OH 2002
For the Geezle Oral History Project. His story of his nativity in Hawkins, TX, and his public education in Lewisville, TX. Insights about his athletic football career in high school, at Texas Technological College, and to North Texas State College. Recollections on graduating in business administration, beginning a career in securities, and…

WOLF, Dennie (b. )

Interview ID#
OH 2034
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dennie Wolf co-authored chapters on postpartum recovery in the 1979 book Ourselves and Our Children and the 1984 version Our Bodies Ourselves, both publications of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. Our interview included discussion of postpartum depression, the…

KUMAR, Divya (b. 1977)

Interview ID#
OH 2069
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Divya Kumar discusses her work as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with a specialization in perinatal mental health. She discusses meeting fellow therapists Desiree Israel and Jabina Coleman in 2016, and working with them to found the Perinatal Mental Health…

BURCH, Cara (b. 2000)

Interview ID#
OH 2117

Campus missionary intern of the Baptist Student Ministry (BSM) at UNT and UNT alumna. Childhood and education in Tolar, Texas, and decision to attend UNT. Involvement in BSM, experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ADAMS, Virgil C. (b. 1928)

Interview ID#
OHB 0070
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;…

ALLRED, David (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OH 0505
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Influence of Proposition 13 in California; treasury surplus; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe, Speaker Bill Clayton, and Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; personal reaction to the special session; repeal of sales tax on residential…

ASHMORE, J. L. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0764
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

BARRON, Gelane Matthews (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 0235
Her experiences at Tripler General Hospital, Fort Shafter, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

BENTON, Allen H. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1624
Childhood experiences in upstate New York, including Depression-era economy; education at Cornell University; drafting into the U.S. Army Infantry and service at several stateside bases; transfer to Cavalry and combat in Pacific Theater; memories of Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay; opinions on war in general; career as author of biological field…

BOGLE, Edra C (b. 1934)

Interview ID#
OH 1177
University professor, experiences concerning the development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Early interest in women writers; experiences concerning job discrimination; activities with National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1970s; introduction of women authors into her literature courses; activities with the…